Multidisciplinary peer-mentoring groups facilitating change?

Facilitating learning in multidisciplinary groups with transactive CSCL scripts

Knowledge sharing and transfer are essential for learning in groups, especially when group members have different disciplinary expertise and collaborate online. ComputerSupported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environments have been designed to facilitate transactive knowledge sharing and transfer in collaborative problem-solving settings. This study investigates how knowledge sharing and transf...

Cross-age peer mentoring

• Mentees in highly structured CAMPs can have larger positive changes in connectedness to school than mentees in adult-with-youth programs. • Mentees in programs with little structure may have no effect at all. More than adults, teens need structure to “scaffold” their helping skills. • But mentors participating in a structured program have reported Fall-to-Spring gains in schoolrelated connect...

Facilitating Learning and Knowledge Transfer through Mentoring

Mentoring is a human resources development process supporting learning and knowledge transfer. Social media and Web services can be used for learning, communication with mentors and monitoring bringing also other advantages. In this paper formal and informal mentoring aspects and the use of IT in mentoring particularly social media and Web support will be shortly presented. Examples of projects...

Facilitating the Peer Review Process

Peer review, the process of improving the quality of work done by a peer of approximately equal caliber, is posited to be an effective educational tool and learning process. Unfortunately, many students participating in peer review lack confidence in the value of their feedback or experience difficulty maintaining interest in another student’s work, thus tending to create feedback that is super...

Peer Mentoring: Summary of the extant literature