Peer Learning Activities in Smart Education

Abstract

Peer learning strategies in higher education have been developed and extended in different trends and forms, as well as in various contexts of learning, on campus and in mobile frameworks. Commonly, peer learning activities are introduced by university teachers in an ad hoc way, without consideration of their implications as a tool for students' collaborative learning in a formative and creative way. Methodically, the study has a comparative design of various peer learning strategies and activities and how they can contribute to student-centered learning for self-directed and motivated smart higher education with resource-enriched and technology-embedded tools. Theoretically, the comparative analysis is based on socio-cultural theory by using dimensions of community of practice and the zone of proximal development for student-centered learning. The results show that peer learning activities are a key factor to reflect over the learning context, its objectives, and exchanges between the students and with different resource implications.