Collaborative learning is a learning approach involving joint intellectual effort by students, or students and teachers together. Usually, students are working in groups of two or more, mutually searching for understanding, solutions, or meanings, or creating a product. Collaborative learning activities vary widely, but mostly centered on students’ exploration, discussion or application of the course material, not simply the teacher’s presentation or explication of it.

iSmartLearns' Collaborative learning represents a significant shift away from the typical teacher centered or lecture-centered milieu in college/school classrooms. In collaborative classrooms, the lecturing/ listening/note-taking process may not disappear entirely, but it lives alongside other processes that are based in students’ discussion and active work with the course material.