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Southern Institute of Technology, Invercargill, New Zealand; Saint Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines

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The contemporary pedagogical community considers collaborative learning as one of the key elements in the process of successful acquisition and learning of knowledge and practical experiences. It emerged as an alternative to the traditional teacher-centered or lecture-centered educational system. Collaborative learning refers to students’ mutual learning, which encourages them to work collectively in developing novel scholastic attainments rather than merely absorbing the information given by tutors. This paper aims to present a survey of literature and studies on collaborative learning and engineering education. Specifically, it surveys studies on engineering students’ perspectives, challenges, and resistance to implementing collaborative learning. It also presents studies on the interaction of students’ demographic with their perspectives on collaborative learning. The article ends with a synthesis of the surveyed studies that served as a basis in the proposed research agenda, specifically in the New Zealand context, for effective and efficient strategy implementation backed-up by sound educational philosophies and empirical data.

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collaborative learning, engineering education, perspectives, challenges, resistance

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Carlo Gabriel, Orland Basas, Johans Claudine Ufano, John Denn Sinlao, Juvenel Mark Rosario. (2022). Collaborative Learning in Engineering Education: A Survey of Literature and Studies Toward a More Reflective and Responsive Research and Pedagogy. US-China Education Review B, Nov.-Dec. 2022, Vol. 12, No. 6, 199-206.

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