IN MOST TRADITIONAL university classes, students are expected to take notes and
study independently. Lectures are the basis for instruction, and group work is not frequently
utilized. Most instructors provide a lecture for the lesson. Homework, exercises
and reports are assigned to the students individually. Students are isolated from one another
and forbidden to interact (Johnson, Johnson, Holubec, & Roy, 1984).
The idea of student-centred pedagogies, however, has recently been promoted