Peer Instruction draft website
An important part of the Peer Instruction in the Humanities project that I’m currently working on is the development of a web site.
AIM #2: To create and maintain a freely accessible ‘Peer Instruction in the Humanities’ website. The website will contain information for all educators in the sector on the details of the method, the way it is being used in philosophy at Monash and reports on our evaluations of its effectiveness. Most importantly, the website will provide free access to the crucial resource for PI, the bank of ConcepTest questions.
The website will provide free access to the bank of ConcepTest questions for philosophy that we will create and test. We will also invite people who have adopted the method to contribute their ConcepTest questions and to share their experience and results. In this way, the website will serve as both a repository of knowledge and resources and as a forum for discussion and dissemination of the method.
At the recent Reference Group meeting the idea was floated to set up the website as a wiki. So I’ve set up a draft website here on my server using Mediawiki (the software used for Wikipedia). Check it out here: http://www.jpaarons.net/pi/
Sam Butchart has also set up a website with a wealth of information on this project. Sam also has a blog describing the progress of the project. There is also an official page for the project located on the Faculty of Arts server at Monash University, but this is currently just in draft form.
Edit (19 April): I’ve also written a brief report outlining the options for the project website. You can find a copy of the report here or over on Sam’s website here.
