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Peer Instruction

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69 (9), 2001. Ross Galloway Ross Galloway is a Senior Teaching Development Officer in the School of Physics and Astronomy. [1] Eric Mazur, Peer instruction: A User’s Manual , Addison-Wesley, 1997. [2] 2] Catherine H Crouch and Eric Mazur, “Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results”, Am.

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Wikipedia assignments – getting past the ‘Penguin effect’ and down to the brass tacks of sharing open knowledge

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By NSF/Josh Landis, employee 1999-2001 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons “The most memorable part of @osfair2017 was learning of The Penguin Effect: Waiting for someone else to ‘jump first’ to assess risks.” Translation Studies MSc ; and World Christianity MSc.