Open AccessCreating a “TQM” Classroom through Cooperative Learning
Author(s) -
Millis Barbara
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.1993.tb00242.x
Subject(s) - total quality management , cooperative learning , quality (philosophy) , knowledge management , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , business , computer science , teaching method , marketing , epistemology , service (business) , philosophy
Two important trends in higher education—Total Quality Management and Cooperative Learning—happily result in compatible and creative classroom approaches. In fact, much of the TQM theory is predicated on the noncompetitive teamsork that forms the heart of the cooperative learning movement. This paper discusses how instructors using cooperative learning activities simultaneously create a TQM classroom.