[Supporting Facilities]

The Cooperative Learning Center

While cooperative learning is widely practiced in the classroom, LAU has opened a special center aiming to encourage academically deficient students to work more effectively, with the assistance of their academically excelling peers.

The center, which functions at the Beirut and Byblos campuses, is administered by students under the supervision of faculty advisors.

Among other advantages, the cooperative learning method:

• gives students a chance to improve their academic performance by trying alternative methods of studying;
• promotes cooperation between students;
• gives students the opportunity to reinforce their knowledge and improve their teaching and communication skills by sharing what they have learned;
• provides students who run the Center with managerial experience and a sense of responsibility.

At the center, students identify the courses in which they usually have difficulties and offer review sessions in these courses. The center also provides study resources such as copies of exam questions, solved problems, computer media, audio-visual materials and reference books. It also organizes workshops periodically to train the students who will be in charge of coaching others.