“Community” is a hot buzzword, referring to everything from a physical neighborhood to a cohort of people rallying around a purpose or shared interest. As observed in Harvard Business Review: “The ...

Our next initiative is a peer learning cohort—but first, we need to hear your story so we can serve you and your community! This peer learning cohort is our way of organizing what we hope is just ...

Students who enroll in a University First-Year Seminar and/or Learning Community are assigned a peer mentor. Peer mentors (sophomores, juniors, seniors, or graduate students who have often have ...

Peer learning is widely practiced in education-based environments. I know that I took advantage of its benefits many times by joining study groups. Somehow, my peers had a much better way of ...

The mission of the UAB Heersink School of Medicine Learning Communities Program is to cultivate a supportive and welcoming community that fosters professional identity formation. We seek to accomplish ...

March 2020 was a time of urgent questions without immediate answers. At first, it felt a bit like the end of Poltergeist when that poor teenager returns from a date to find her house on the verge of ...

Professional development has long followed a predictable formula: Junior staff members learn from senior team leaders, managers enroll in structured programs, and organizations invest in top-down ...

Students can learn from their peers in a similar way as they learn from adult teachers. Peer teachers can also come away with a deeper understanding of the material. [iStockphoto] Last Tuesday, I ...

Situated in a meeting room overlooking the Mississippi River, six project directors and their evaluators gathered at the Tulane River and Coastal Center in New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the first ...

Most fire departments are looking for innovative approaches to skill development. They’re especially interested in peer-to-peer learning because most departments have so much in-house expertise. How ...

Students live with other students from the same academic program, making it easy to form study groups or project teams. Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are assigned a specific area in a residence ...