Peer Instruction

03/29/2023

Our new article -Adapting Peer Instruction for Online Learning Using a Learning Science Framework- came out today. Check it out! https://www.dropbox.com/s/9835wun1r44eo6g/itow.pdf?dl=0

03/05/2022

As the Peer Instruction conference chair for this year’s Perusall Exchange, I am pleased to invite abstract submissions from Peer Instruction scholars and practitioners worldwide to participate i. this year’s conference on the theme of social learning. Join us as we celebrate thirty years of Mazur’s method! https://vimeo.com/685037209
Submit today or before March 18! https://perusall.com/exchange

PI30 Invite

02/16/2022

Perusall Exchange 2022 is now accepting submissions for abstracts with the theme of Social Learning. In addition, we will highlight a separate track at this year's conference, Peer Instruction 30, which will focus on peer instruction to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the development of this social learning method by Eric Mazur. The conference organizers for this section invite diverse presentations on any element of peer instruction spanning the past three decades. Abstracts must be submitted by March 18th, 2022.

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04/11/2020

Teaching with PI and wondering how to do that online? By popular demand I'm repeating my webinar (attended by over 700 people already!). 12 pm EDT on April 17 and 3 pm EDT on April 21. You can sign up here for free: https://calendly.com/ericmazur/fliponline

03/25/2020

How to flip your course online when the world is flipping out -- a hands/brains-on demonstration with Eric Mazur. Time: Mar 27, 2020 03:15-4:45 PM EDT. No registration required! Please join at

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03/19/2020

Peer Instruction fans! Spread the word: "How to flip your class online, when the world is flipping out" -- a brains & hands-on demonstration of online with Eric Mazur, Friday March 20, 2 pm EDT (limited to the first 300 participants).

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05/30/2018

In this new article on Peer Instruction, Andy Butler and I use the science of learning to explain why PI works. Check it out:

Peer Instruction is a popular pedagogical method developed by Eric Mazur in the 1990s. Educational researchers, administrators, and teachers laud Peer Instruction as an easy-to-use teaching method that fosters active learning in K-12, undergraduate, and graduate classrooms across the globe. Research...

06/08/2016

Using Eric Mazur's approached featured in yesterday's Chronicle of Higher Education virtually eliminated the need for me to lecture https://blog.peerinstruction.net/2016/06/07/increasing-student-engagement-by-design/

On June 6, 2016 the Chronicle of Higher Education featured the founder of Peer Instruction and my mentor Eric Mazur in article titled “The Making of a Teaching Evangelist,” by Dan Berre…

06/06/2016

Today, Eric Mazur and the history of Peer Instruction was featured in a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, check it out - http://chronicle.com/article/The-Making-of-a-Teaching/236706

How Eric Mazur came to realize that the traditional classroom lecture had to go.

04/08/2016

In this post, I give a 2ish minute video primer on Peer Instruction and how to implement it with fidelity. The video has about 50 seconds of preamble and closing for 2.56 minutes total. This basic introduction includes a handful of quick tips for avoiding common pitfalls. https://blog.peerinstruction.net/2014/05/01/what-is-peer-instruction-in-2-mins/

In this post, I give a 2ish minute video primer on Peer Instruction and how to implement it with fidelity. The video has about 50 seconds of preamble and closing for 2.56 minutes total. This basic …

03/28/2016

10 reasons why students should get into a flipped class. https://blog.peerinstruction.net/2016/03/28/10-reasons-why-you-should-get-into-a-flipped-class/

This week, Turn to Your Neighbor introduces a new series authored by students, called The Sandbox. In The Sandbox, we will look at educational innovation from the student point of view. In this …

03/07/2016

A Masterclass on Why Flipped Classrooms Fail - Part 3 in a 3 Part series. https://blog.peerinstruction.net/2016/03/07/why-flipped-classrooms-fail-part-3/ (See my entry on Peer Instruction specifically)

Flipped classrooms sometimes fall flat. In this third and final post, we continue our exploration of why flipped classrooms fail (see Part 1 and Part 2). You will gain diverse perspectives and new …