UNIVERSITIES in this day and age face all manner of challenges – some of which are funding cuts despite growing student populations, and academicians’ race against time to equip themselves with appropriate skills amid unprecedented digital acceleration, due to a pandemic that has reshaped the way we work, play, live and study.
In light of this, higher education institutions should seriously consider peer learning (students learning from other students) as one of the solutions to these challenges. In fact, research and literature have offered three main factors that make a convincing case of why we should consider peer learning.