Implementing Peer Learning Across Organisations: The development of a model
Author:
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning
- Vol. 10 (3) , 221-231
Abstract
Peer learning can be implemented by individual teachers within an organisation or can be implemented across an organisation by a central implementer. In this article, it is argued that the types of approach required in these two forms of implementation are very different and whilst the former is dealt with in the literature on peer learning, the latter has been largely unconsidered. The article reports how a review of the literature on organisational change was used to develop a model of how to implement peer learning across organisations. It describes how this model was used to guide the implementation of peer learning across a UK further education college. The results of a pilot study into the model's effectiveness in this context are reported. These results suggest that the model appeared to be a useful guide to the implementation of peer learning across an organisation and, as such, is worthy of further investigation in other contexts.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Learning Together2003
- Peer-Assisted Student Support: A new approach to learningJournal of Further and Higher Education, 2000
- Peer Learning and AssessmentAssessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1999
- New ways of learning in higher education: Managing the changeTertiary Education and Management, 1999
- The effectiveness of peer tutoring in further and higher education: A typology and review of the literatureHigher Education, 1996
- Quality and change in higher educationInnovative Higher Education, 1994
- Breaking the Attrition CycleThe Journal of Higher Education, 1983
- Breaking the Attrition Cycle: The Effects of Supplemental Instruction on Undergraduate Performance and AttritionThe Journal of Higher Education, 1983
- Innovation processes in higher educationStudies in Higher Education, 1979
- Peer teaching in higher education: A reviewHigher Education, 1976