Collaborative Learning Environment in Higher Education: Implementing Job and Organizational Learning Theories in Academia

To those around us, specifically those from educational theory and/or faculty development backgrounds, we have been surprisingly successful. Our program grew from an Industrial Engineering dissertation (Sanders 1993) to a college-wide pilot program, then to a three-year, federally funded campus research program, and most recently to be integrated into the institution as a center, “Creating a Collaborative Academic Environment,” which is now part of the Provost’s Office at UW-Madison.