ABSTRACT
To cope well with the 21st century learning skills, students need to be taught how to collaborate and acquire technology-based learning experiences. Mastery on theories as well as practices is indeed necessary for their future professional development. In so doing, learning should be learner-centered and students should be adequately exposed to and involved in contextual learning in which theories and practices are aligned. Johnson (2003) confirms that cooperative learning could be one of the concepts that embed a close relationship between research, theory, and practice. In addition, cooperative learning procedures are built on and characterized by the social interdependent theory (Johnson & Johnson 2002). The social interdependent theory, in addition, postulates that goals of an individuals could be achieved and influenced by the actions of other people (Deutsch 1949). Simply put, cooperative learning can be a promising alternative for learning that combine the notion of research, theory, and practice to help learners achieve their goals of learning. It is also a tool to cope with the 21st century requirements in which collaboration becomes one of the essential constituents.
