Better teaching: Eric Mazur and Peer Instruction
| My blogpost on this topic | Link | From thinkforyourself.ie |
| Peer Instruction for Active Learning - Eric Mazur | Link | YouTube. 14 mins. Shorter overview of Mazur's work |
| Eric Mazur shows interactive teaching | Link | YouTube. 8 mins. |
| Assessment: The Silent Killer of Learning | Link | YouTube. 1 hour. Excellent introduction to who Mazur is. |
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: Eric Mazur |
Link | YouTube. 1 hour 20 mins |
Father Guido Sarducci's Five Minute University |
Link | YouTube. 5 mins. Funny cos it's true. |
| Mazur Criticizes Forms of Assessments | Link | Why so much of what we’re doing is waffle. |
| Peer Instruction: Ten Years of Experience and Results | A seminal paper co-authored by Eric Mazur. | |
| Peer Instruction may work, but not for the reason we think. | Blog post from uksportsci.wordpress.com/ | |
| Analyzing learning during Peer Instruction dialogues | Link | Seems like it's a lot more nuanced than would first appear. Peer reviewed paper published in the Physical Review Physics Education Research |
| Using Peer Instruction | ||
| Getting the most out of peer instruction using clickers | Link | Very useful flowchart on how to use Peer Instruction |
| Essential features of Peer Instruction | Link | A slightly more detailed list of the essential features and many advantages of Peer Instruction can be found here: |
| Turn to your neighbour: the official peer instruction blog | Link | blog.peerinstruction.net. |
| Evidence-based science education in action | Link | Videos demonstrating flipped classes, clickers, framework activities, worksheets and other strategies. blogs.ubc.ca/wpvc |
| Tips from business on how to convince students who are reluctant to go with your new teaching style | Link | Journal article from chronicle.com |
Turning Lectures into Learning |
Link | Cornell Center for Teaching Excellence YouTube. 1 hour 20 mins |
What is Peer Instruction? |
Link | From the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence Includes links with lots of sample questions at the bottom of the page |
| Twilight of the Lecture: The trend toward "active learning" may overthrow the style of teaching that has ruled universities for 600 years. | Link | From harvardmagazine.com |
| Research-Based Implementation of Peer Instruction: A Literature Review | Link | Academic paper reviewinng Peer Instruction and the importance of posing the correct type of question |
| “I was quite surprised to find that students will absolutely defend to the death the lecture – a mode of learning that many of us are getting used to thinking of as an out-of-date method of teaching.” | Link | From timeshighereducation.com |
| Because much of what we're doing is 'Pseudoteaching' | Link | Link to the 'Pseudoteaching' webpage on this (betterteaching.ie) website |
| Science Misconceptions | Link | Link to the 'Science Misconceptions' webpage on this (betterteaching.ie) website |
| The Flipped Classroom | Link | Link to the 'Flipped Classroom' webpage on this (betterteaching.ie) website |