Editor’s Notes: Journeys Through Time

Abstract

Issue 2 of Advances in Peer-Led Learning (APLL) continues the effort of the Peer-Led Team Learning International Society to communicate research and innovations in peer-facilitated models of learning, like Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL). Papers examine individuals’ journeys: from student to Peer Leader, thence to graduate and medical school, to a career in academia. They also examine the beginning of the journey in implementing PLTL: in a different educational system – from the USA to the UK; from a desire to retain and excite those not usually found in engineering; to designing changes in how Peer Leaders are prepared for careers as mathematics instructors. Then there are the longer views: how the PLTL program remained innovative and supportive at Washington University in St. Louis, and the conundrum of how PLTL can be sustained across time and institutional changes.