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Designing Instruction For The Contemporary Learning Landscape, Fred Paas, Jeroen Van Merrienboer, Tamara Van Gog
Designing Instruction For The Contemporary Learning Landscape, Fred Paas, Jeroen Van Merrienboer, Tamara Van Gog
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
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Supporting First Year Student Supporters: An Online Mentoring Model For Supplemental Instruction Leaders, Phillip Dawson, Lori Lockyer, Brian Ferry
Supporting First Year Student Supporters: An Online Mentoring Model For Supplemental Instruction Leaders, Phillip Dawson, Lori Lockyer, Brian Ferry
Faculty of Education - Papers (Archive)
Supplemental Instruction (SI), or Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) as it is commonly known in Australia, involves experienced senior student Peer Leaders who provide regularly scheduled peer learning sessions with students enrolled in university courses. Commonly implemented on first year subjects, the sessions integrate how to learn with what to learn, helping students achieve better grades and helping raise student retention rates. This paper discusses the challenges of supporting SI Leaders who are geographically dispersed across multiple campuses and considers the theoretical and empirical informs the development of an online mentoring model.