Peer Learning

Peer learning is an educational practice in which students interact with other students, rather than only with a teacher, to reach shared learning goals. The education scholar David Boud describes it as a shift away from learning in isolation toward interdependent, mutual learning among peers, in which knowledge is built through the relationship between learners rather than transmitted one way from instructor to student. Broader contemporary versions of the idea extend it into a more democratized form of education, sometimes summarized as learning for everyone, by everyone, about almost anything, which lets peer learning take root in settings ranging from structured classrooms to informal online communities. A defining feature of peer learning is that it is often self organizing rather than centrally directed by a teacher, since collaborative problem solving among peers tends to generate its own teaching and learning moments in both small groups and digital spaces. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/