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Currently reading Hockings et al. (2018) on “Independent learning–what we do when you’re not there”

November 26, 2025

peer instruction

Hockings et al. (2018) write: “Over recent months and years, the balance between contact hours and independent study time has been one focus of attention, the underlying assumption being that…

Currently reading Ramp & Hummels (2025) on “The Carousel: a mutual and parallel learning approach to design for societal transformation”

September 3, 2025

Ramp & Hummels (2025) describe the peer-consultation method “carousel“, “a method to facilitate the exchange of perspectives of different actors working in parallel on different challenges“: Each presenter gets 30…

Currently reading: “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

September 2, 2022

Somehow a print of the “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006) article ended up on my desk. I don’t…

Mirjam Glessmer and Timo Lüth leading a workshop for university instructors

You learn better when you think that you will have to teach

June 30, 2016

Have you ever worked as student tutor? Then you’ve probably felt like you understood the content of the course you tutored a million times better after tutoring it. Or at…

How your behavior as an instructor influences how your students behave during peer instruction phases

December 17, 2015

It probably doesn’t come as a surprise to you that how you behave as an instructor influences how your students work during peer instruction phases. But do you know what…

Peer instruction! Combine it with individual thinking or discussions with the whole class?

April 15, 2015

Make sure it stays silent during the first step of the clicker process. When using clickers in class, there are many different possible ways of implementing clicker questions and peer…

What do I want from my students – sense-making or answer-making?

January 7, 2015

On different approaches to peer-instruction and why one might want to use them. Having sat in many different lectures by many different professors over the last year, and having given…

Why talking to your neighbor might help more than listening to the lecturer

September 24, 2014

Why does learning through peer instruction work? As you might have noticed by now, I’m a big fan of concept questions combined with “talk to your neighbor” peer instruction. And…

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Currently reading Hockings et al. (2018) on “Independent learning–what we do when you’re not there”

Currently reading Ramp & Hummels (2025) on “The Carousel: a mutual and parallel learning approach to design for societal transformation”

Currently reading: “Formative assessment and self‐regulated learning: A model and seven principles of good feedback practice” (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006)

You learn better when you think that you will have to teach

How your behavior as an instructor influences how your students behave during peer instruction phases

Peer instruction! Combine it with individual thinking or discussions with the whole class?

What do I want from my students – sense-making or answer-making?

Why talking to your neighbor might help more than listening to the lecturer

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