Student learning communities

Google 'student engagement' and you will see 5,000,000+ results.

How do you encourage peer learning in your teaching? What strategies do you use that facilitate student engagement? How do you know your students are (more) engaged: with each other? with the course content? with you?

Study groups. Peer learning groups. Peer-to-peer networking systems. Student learning communities. Together, these comprise the action plan b, to achieve engagement: Goal 3 of the University's Destination 2012.

On January 20, a roundtable for faculty to exchange ideas about effective peer-to-peer learning will be held at MSVU, followed by a 'hands on' successful practices session in February.

In the interim, we invite you to begin sharing your ideas now by posting a reply to this blog.