Felder: There is never a situation where I would say, “This is not a good place to use cooperative learning.” I’m not saying that they don’t exist, I’m just saying that I haven’t found one yet. But its not an either/or situation. . . . First, remember that when I say cooperative learning I’m talking about what I do in homework; in class I’m doing active learning, but I don’t do exclusively active learning. And I think that would be a mistake. I know there are approaches—guided inquiry is one—where all they do is have the students working in groups on questions and things like that. I don’t do that, and one of my catchwords in the teaching workshops I give is “variety.” I believe that the more you can mix things up in class, the more different techniques that you can use, the more interesting class is going to be, the less likely the class is to just be boring, and the more likely you are to achieve your learning objective.