Peer Support (Learning and Teaching)

Web-Based Resources for Peer Support – Opportunities and Challenges

by Ole Smørdal

Co-authored with Anne Moen and Idunn Sem
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2009;150:302-6.

Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborative knowledge construction in... more Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborative knowledge construction in peer support and self- care to live well despite transient or permanent health problems. Opportunities include many to many interactions to share and accumulate knowledge and experiences from several perspectives. We are conducting a study to create a collaborative environment for peer support and knowledge construction related to a rare condition. The study draws from participatory design and agile approach to development; extensively using design workshops and iterative prototyping. Several workshops led to systematize perspectives of different participant groups, and provided feedback about functionalities illustrated in different mock-ups and prototypes. Here we report experiences, and focus on feedback from participants leading to special considerations in design of the web-based environment.

Sharing Sensitive Health Matters Online – Design Challenges for Participation and Polyvocality

by Ole Smørdal

Co-authored with Anne Moen
Presented at Therapeutic strategies – a challenge for user involvement, workshop at NordiCHI2010, Reykjavik 16-20 October 2010

Online communities for patients and their families complement health care therapeutic regimes of care and treatment.... more Online communities for patients and their families complement health care therapeutic regimes of care and treatment. We present how we have addressed challenges to establish a community applying a collaborative design process where participants providing quite heterogeneous perspectives took part. The process draws from participatory design and agile approach to development; extensively using design workshops and iterative prototyping. In the process several challenges and requirements surfaced. For this contribution we highlight two design challenges related to sharing sensitive health matters online; design for participation and design for polyvocality. The outcome was a new net-based service supporting challenges of “living well” with a rare, chronic disorder.

Through the Eyes of Children. The Implementation of a European Dimension by Peer Learning in Primary School

by Martin Musumeci

Schmeinck, D., Knecht, P., Kosack, W., Lambrinos, N., Musumeci, M. & Gatt, S.
mensch und buch. Berlin (2010).
ISBN: 978-3-86664-753-4

Learning to attend to the substance of students' thinking in science

by Jennifer Richards

Published in Science Educator, Fall 2011, 20(2), 1-11.

Those who can, Teach

by Julia Lau Bertrand

Draft version for presentation at
APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Feb 17-19 2012,
Grand Hyatt Washington, DC
Track: Graduate Education
DO NOT CITE WITHOUT AUTHOR'S PERMISSION

This paper describes the process through which a small group of graduate students at a particular PhD program in a... more This paper describes the process through which a small group of graduate students at a particular PhD program in a research university developed an informal but effective way to help prepare their peers for the rigors, stresses, and uncertainties of teaching. The main pedagogical tools through which advanced PhD students in this political science department communicated advice, tips and teaching strategies were a panel presentation and a candid discussion on past teaching experiences and strategies for seeking teaching opportunities. The small audience involved new PhD students who had just entered the program as well as more advanced PhD students. Prior to the presentation, advanced PhD students in the program were surveyed on their range of teaching experience during their doctoral careers.
The author argues that peer coaching and frank discussion about teaching at the graduate student level is as important as the tacit learning that takes place when graduate students assist and observe faculty members teaching courses. Such coaching and dialogue can and should take place alongside university-wide programs to prepare graduate students to teach college courses, and supplement other programs specific to the discipline of political science.
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Peer Assessment in Popular Music Group Performance

by Mark Pulman

In: Assessing Musical Performance, 11-12th September 2002, Carrickfergus, University of Ulster. (Unpublished) Item availablity restricted

Rehearsing popular music: Exploring opportunities for supporting learning in the pop/rock band

by Mark Pulman

There seems little reported about group-based rehearsals of popular music and the peer learning opportunities that... more There seems little reported about group-based rehearsals of popular music and the peer learning opportunities that might arise from this activity. Although there are an increasing number of studies exploring approaches to the assessment of musical ensembles, these often focus on performance rather than rehearsing and, typically, do not specifically address popular music courses (Hunter, 2006). Indeed, Lebler (2008) describes popular music as being usually learned in the broader community as a self-directed activity, sometimes including interactions with peers and group activities, but rarely under the direction of an expert mentor/teacher. The role of the tutor, in facilitating learning opportunities that may be available for students working in popular music genres within a band rehearsal context, can be quite different to that required for rehearsing repertoire which might be described as being drawn from western art music traditions. If so, and given the apparent lack of literature on, and pedagogical resources for, band rehearsing of popular music (Lebler, 2007) within the HE curriculum, the aim of this project is to provide a contribution towards filling that gap.

Active Defending and Passive Bystanding Behavior in Bullying: The Role of Personal Characteristics and Perceived Peer Pressure

by Gianluca Gini

Advising for language learner autonomy: An upcoming conference

by Jo Mynard

The Language Teacher - Issue 35.4; July 2011

This is a short article promoting the upcoming event at Kanda University of International Studies (November 12, 2011).... more This is a short article promoting the upcoming event at Kanda University of International Studies (November 12, 2011). "Advising for language learner autonomy"

Peer Observation of Teaching Guidelines

by Catherine Bovill

Workshop in Moodle: A Tool for Peer Critiquing

by Sarah Honeychurch

Co-authored with Craig Brown and Jane Munro

To be presented at the CAA conference 5-6th July 2011

This paper will begin with a brief discussion of the benefits of peer assessment and peer critiquing.  In... more This paper will begin with a brief discussion of the benefits of peer assessment and peer critiquing.  In particular, it will examine how both can be beneficial in helping to introduce, and reinforce, valuable graduate attributes in students throughout their university careers.

It will then examine the tools available at the University of Glasgow and evaluate them in terms of their strengths and weaknesses. In order to explain this in detail, a real life case study from a third year class in Nursing will be presented.

The paper will conclude that, while there are obvious benefits to peer critiquing tools being used with a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), some modifications are necessary in order to make them more easily usable by staff and students.

Supporting preservice teachers' reform-based practices: The importance of intellectual and emotional support in a community

by Jennifer Richards

Conference paper accompanying a talk at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Using Blogs for peer feedback and discussion - Case study

by Simon McIntyre

Written by Simon McIntyre & Karin Watson as part of the 'Learning to Teach Online' Collection http://bit.ly/d18ac5

This case study aims to describe how a blog was used in one particular teaching context to promote peer- to-peer... more This case study aims to describe how a blog was used in one particular teaching context to promote peer- to-peer interaction, feedback and discussion. While the case study does examine one particular teaching application of a blog, the principles discussed can just as easily be applied to any teaching situation where the ability for individuals to chronologically record a learning process, collate different learning resources such
as text, video and audio, and increased peer feedback or discussion between students is desired. This episode will examine the context, planning and teaching within the case study, and highlight any issues that were encountered, and benefits that make this type of online teaching worthwhile.

Facilitating Community Building In Learning Networks Through Peer Tutoring In Ad Hoc Transient Communities

by Francis Brouns

A Learner Support Model Based on Peer Tutor Selection

by Francis Brouns