Learning Together: Peer Tutoring in Higher Education

Introduction 1. What is peer tutoring? 2. Beneficial effects: why teachers use peer tutoring 3. Theoretical frameworks for peer tutoring 4. How theory can inform practice 5. Planning and promoting peer tutoring 6. Helping students become peer tutors 7. Evaluation of peer tutoring schemes 8. Problems associated with peer tutoring 9. Technology-supported collaborative learning 10. Benefiting from hindsight: practitioners reflect on peer tutoring 11. Reflections and prospects