{"id":104,"date":"2017-10-24T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:44:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:44:32","slug":"peer-learning-why-does-peer-learning-ensure-impact-in-executive-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/peer-learning-why-does-peer-learning-ensure-impact-in-executive-education","title":{"rendered":"Peer learning: why does peer learning ensure impact in executive education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It supplements approaches such as experiential and action learning opening a space in which learners can deepen their understanding of complex challenges and concepts by talking about them with their peers. Peer learning is broadly scalable, pragmatic, encourages critical thinking, strengthens teams, mobilizes \u201cpeer pressure\u201d for good, creates a push for achievement, ensures attention to organizationally relevant issues, and can be effectively employed as part of online learning approaches. One student\u2019s weakness might be another student\u2019s strength, and encouraging active and conscientious exchange strengthens individuals, fosters group bonding, and generates collective knowledge. Finally, learning to discuss new concepts in groups strengthens the communication skills of individuals. This has the potential to positively impact operations, management processes, innovation, as well as attention to changes in your company\u2019s environment that demand action in a VUCA world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Picture: Istockphoto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It supplements approaches such as experiential and action learning opening a space in which learners can deepen their understanding of complex challenges and concepts by talking about them with their peers. Peer learning is broadly scalable, pragmatic, encourages critical thinking, strengthens teams, mobilizes \u201cpeer pressure\u201d for good, creates a push for achievement, ensures attention to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"acf":{"excerpt":"<p>Peer learning is an excellent way for participants to benefit from the knowledge and experience of their colleagues in executive education courses.<\/p>\n"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lam.unisg.ch\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}