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Peer Learning and Flip Teaching
Peer Learning | Clickers | Flip or Reverse Teaching
Peer Learning
Peer Teaching (learning) involves student learning from and with each other in ways which are mutually beneficial and involve sharing knowledge, experience and ideas between participants.
—David Boud, et al., Peer Learning in Higher Education:
Learning from and with Each Other, 2001
- Boud, D., Cohen, R., and Sampson, J.
(2001) Peer Learning in Higher
Education: Learning from and with
Each Other. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
Available at CIIA - Mazur, Eric (1997) Peer Instruction:
A User's Manual. Des Moines, IA:
Prentiss-Hall.
Available at CIIA & WWU Libraries
- Ender, S., & Newton, Fred (2000)
Students Helping Students:
A Guide for Peer Educators
on College Campuses.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Available at CIIA & WWU Libraries
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur - (5 min.) Eric Mazur describes his well-renowned approach to peer learning that includes a flipped classroom and the use of clickers. - Peer Editing - students provide collaborative feedback to one another to improve writing
- Peer Evaluation Tool - Comprehensive Assessment of Team Member Effectiveness (CATME) is a free web-based tool to facilitate the peer evaluation process (also includes "Team-Maker" for team creation)
- Peer Learning Strategies - Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore
- See also: Active Learning, CIIA
Relevant Books
Clickers (personal response systems)
Clickers (a.k.a. personal response systems), or other polling tools that can be implemented on smartphones and laptops, can be utilized during class time to increase active participation in a class or to facilitate peer learning.
- Classroom Response Systems - blog entry by Derek Bruff, author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems
- Clickers - instructional technology informational page, CIIA
- Using Clickers in the College Classroom - Online Video Module with resources, CIIA
Flip or Reverse Teaching
A style of teaching/learning where content is presented outside of class through the use of prepared media such as podcasts, and class time is used for active engagement between teachers and learners, and between learners and learners. Using the term "flipped" presumes that the traditional (or former) model of in-class content delivery was lecture-based.
- 7 Things You Should Know about Flip Teaching
- EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative - Teachers "Doing The Flip" to Help Students Become Learners - basic introduction, Stacey Roshan (5/13/11). Retrieved from The Daily Riff
- The Flipped Classroom Infographic - Jeremy Strayer, OSU; retrieved from Knewton
- Flipping - introduces Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, the "fathers" of flip teaching, retrieved from ChannelTechSmith on YouTube; see also their blog, The Flipped Class Blog
For information on recording podcasts or vodcasts, see our "Video and Audio" page. Also see:
- Create Podcasts Using Your PC (PC) - O'Rielly Media
- How to Record a Podcast (Mac OS X) - O'Rielly Media
- Podomatic This free resource allows you to record podcasts, and has a library of pre-recorded podcasts as well.
To prepare content for Flip Learning, see the CIIA's "Video and Audio" resource.
