Presentation
Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL)
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology
(2014)
Abstract
This paper describes the challenges and opportunities of adapting a high-impact face-to-face pedagogy to an online environment. At Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA, Cyber Peer-led Team Learning (cPLTL) was developed by adapting Peer Led-Team Learning (PLTL) to an online environment. PLTL is a model of teaching that preserves the lecture and replaces recitation in science courses with a weekly two-hour problem solving session called a workshop. In this project, an online, synchronous, collaborative environment for conducting PLTL workshops was created by using web-conferencing software coupled with a two-camera-per-learner configuration. As in PLTL workshops, six to eight students in cPLTL workshops are guided by a peer leader through problem-solving activities for two hours. Learning gains in cPLTL were similar to those seen in PLTL. Discussed here is the development of cPLTL as well as adoption at other institutions.
Keywords
- cPLTL,
- online learning
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 23, 2014
Location
Tampere, Finland
Citation Information
Janke, T. & Varma-Nelson, P. (2014). Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL). In J. Viteli & M. Leikomaa (Eds.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2014--World Conference on Educational Media and Technology (pp. 29-34). Tampere, Finland: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).