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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. Peer Instruction [1] is a structured way to boost the effectiveness of in-class questions and student discussion. As an approach, it is now well established and has some solid research evidence behind it [2].

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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. The question has always been ‘how do I begin ’?