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The “PALgroups Podcast” is focused on college study review groups.  PAL is the name for the study review groups used at the University of Minnesota.  We drew upon best practices from international models such as Supplemental Instruction, Peer-led Team Learning, and the Emerging Scholars Program. I served on the team that created the PAL model at the Univ. of Minnesota. Before UMN, I served at the Center for SI at the Univ. of Missouri-KC. 
 
Some episodes share new things I am learning from around the world. Common names for peer learning groups are Peer Assisted Study Sessions (PASS) and Peer Assisted Learning (PAL). Other podcast episodes feature student study group leaders and program coordinators describing session activities that worked well. Those interviews include what they are learning personally and professionally from their experience. Send an email to David Arendale, arendale@umn.edu, if you or your students want to be interviewed for the podcast.  I also maintain an annotated bibliography of publications about seven major peer learning models.  It now exceeds 1,700 publication.  Click this link to download the bibliography.  Training manuals and other PAL resources are available by clicking on this link for the website.

 

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Please post comments to the individual episodes, post to the iTunes podcast review and rating section, and email to me at arendale@umn.edu You can also check out my other podcasts and social media channels at www.davidmedia.org Thanks for listening.

May 13, 2020

Bonus (PDF) This is the draft guidelines for Course-based Learning Assistance which is another term to describe many peer assisted learning programs.


May 13, 2020

Bonus (PDF) These are the PowerPoint slides used in my overview to the Course-based Learning Assistance Guidelines.


May 13, 2020

S03-E23 The 80+ page guidebook to best practices with postsecondary peer assisted learning programs provides field-tested and approved practices that can enhance any academic support program at a college that uses student-led study groups. This video provides a brief overview of the document. It can be downloaded at


May 6, 2020

Bonus (PDF) This is the complete annotated bibliography of the major peer learning programs with more than 1,550 citations, many of which have web links to provide for viewing or downloading.


May 6, 2020

Bonus (PDF) These are the PowerPoint slides of the overview concerning the recently released update of the peer learning bibliography.