The Success of Active and Cooperative Learning in Summer School Courses

In this paper a new paradigm of education in the Summer School Courses (SSC) in Renewable Energies is present. This course aims at enabling students to learn about the various types of Renewable Energies, which can provide a great improvement in learning throughout life with many advantages. This paper presents the use of active and cooperative learning in Summer School Courses. Through this approach, it is expected that students develop positive interdependency, individual responsibility, dynamic interaction, appropriate use of collaborative skills as well as group work. The cooperative learning method differs substantially from the classical methods. This represents a new paradigm of education with many advantages. Cooperative learning is a dynamic process in which students are required to work as a team, with a common goal. At the end, it is expected that the students are able to understand the importance of Renewables Energies in general.