PeerAssisted Learning PAL enhancement across borders Is it

Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) enhancement across borders: Is it achievable? Dr S. D. Sivasubramaniam, Dr C. Thode and Prof F Lopez School of Science and Technology, NTU and Institute of Biomedicine, University of Leon, Spain

Objectives: - PAL with academic feedback • Enhance PAL amongst students from different countries. • Support the process via academic feedback • Assess the “learning process”; NOT the “acquired knowledge” 24 November 2020

Peer-assisted Learning (PAL) “A collaborative approach in which pairs of students interact to enhance their learning process” 24 November 2020

The Challenge • Inter-university PAL beyond boarders. • Collaboration between UG and PG students. • Collaborative marking and feedback. 24 November 2020

Methodology Students are groups With presentation titles PAL activity via Google. Share Academic feedback through out the process Presentation via Skype Assessment of the learning enhancement Obtaining student feedback about the activity

Feedback for Inter-university PAL Spanish Students

Feedback for Inter-university PAL NTU Students

Performance Comparison – NTU students 24 November 2020

Positive comments: 24 November 2020

We should have been given the choice to select our partners My partner rarely engaged with the activity. I learnt a lot about my subject via this activity. I really enjoyed the collaboration with Spanish students; we both learnt a lot Collaborative with UK students was fun!

Academic experience • Time consuming! • The experience was enjoyable! • Rewarding to see the improvement!

Concluding remarks • Inter-university PAL can successfully be used to enhance interactive preparation and scientific communication. • It significantly improves the confidence of students in presenting in front of a multilingual audience. • Overall, the student opinion strongly supported this activity.