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Image: K Atkinson While thinking about what the essential elements of peer-to-peer learning consist of, I remembered my experience as a member of the most successful group of this type of my career. A few years ago, I worked with a team of three other learning designers and a Learning Management System (LMS) manager. These were the characteristics of this environment:
These attributes were confirmed in “Trends in Peer Learning” (Topping, 2005), The Peeragogy Handbook (Corneli, Danoff, Pierce, Ricuarte, & Snow Macdonald, 2016). In her blog, Kay Oddone explains her view that merely ingesting information is not learning: interacting with others about a topic, and coming up with something new is (Oddone, 2016, March 15). Similarly, as Sugata Mitra explained in his TED talk, even though the children in his “Hole in the wall” computer experiment individually did not have the skills or knowledge to use a computer, let alone address the challenge he put to them, collectively they succeeded beyond all expectation (TED, 2013, February 27)! A truly inspirational story, it encapsulates the power of both collaborative and peer-to peer learning. References
Corneli, J., Danoff, C. J., Pierce, C., Ricuarte, P., & Snow Macdonald, L. (2016). The Peeragogy Handbook, 3rd ed. In. Retrieved from http://peeragogy.github.io/ Oddone, K. (2016, March 15). Collaborative learning and learning communities. [Blog post] Retrieved from https://www.linkinglearning.com.au/collaborative-learning-and-learning-communities/ TED (Producer). (2013, February 27). Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud [Video file] Retrieved from https://youtu.be/y3jYVe1RGaU Topping, K. J. (2005). Trends in Peer Learning. Educational Psychology, 25(6), 631-645.
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Glenda Morris
26/3/2019 09:14:36 pm
Karen, love the concept map. It's quite easy to follow your ideas. I like in this post how you have been able to relate back to your previous experiences. Thank you for sharing.
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Tanya Silver
19/5/2019 12:18:18 pm
Hi Karen, great graphic! Your team certainly had a lot of traits and circumstances needed for peer-to-peer learning. I believe that trust, self-confidence and willingness to try new things are really important qualities for learning from each other and being able to collaborate to achieve new ideas and products.
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