Developments in Peer Assisted Learning PAL

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Developments inPeer Assisted Learning (PAL)

• Hugh Fleming Janice Hurne

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Session structure

• What makes PAL special?
• How can we sustain PAL at Bournemouth
  University?
• Current developments
• Questions and discussion

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What makes PAL special?

• PAL is a scheme which
• enhances the level of support and advice
  available to first year undergraduate students
• encourages students to become more actively
  involved in their learning by discussing the
  subject matter of their course
• encourages students to work together and get to
  know other members of their seminar group better
  
• provides an environment in which PAL Leaders can
  practise and develop their personal and
  professional skills

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What makes PAL special?

• Quality assurance!!
• PAL Leader recruitment and training
• PAL Leader Manual and materials
• Observation and monitoring of Leaders
• Evaluation - 360O
• Partnership - Course PAL Contacts/Course Team who
  contextualise PAL Co-ordination Team who train,
  support and monitor

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How can we sustain PAL?

• Be flexible, responsive and dynamic while
  remaining true to the principles good practice
  we have developed
• Communicate, promote and engage staff students
  at all levels
• Research, monitor evaluate to identify good
  practice disseminate it
• Use evidence feedback to develop improve the
  PAL scheme
• Be proud of our aims, our Leaders, the level of
  staff input let everyone know what were
  achieving

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Current developments in PAL 1

• External activities
• Transferability Project funding to transfer
  scheme elsewhere
• Consultancy helps others set up PAL
• Web site resource and promotional tool
• Training DVD
• Updates to PAL Student Leader Manual
• Symposium being planned

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Current developments in PAL 2

• Internal activities
• Roll out to more courses at Bournemouth
• Steering Group
• MyBU
• Accreditation
• Links with Releasing Potential Projects

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Who is who?

• University PAL Director
• Janice Hurne
• Office P311, Poole House
• University PAL Co-ordinators
• Hugh Fleming (Manager) Alison Green
• Office DLG24, Learning Support, Talbot Campus
  Library
• PAL Web Site
• www.peerlearning.ac.uk