SXSW Proposal

1. SXSW Proposal
2019

2. Empowering Peer-to-Peer
Learning Within the Workforce

3. The main benefits of peer teaching include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Employees receive more time for individualized learning.
Direct interaction between employees promotes active learning.
Coworkers reinforce their own learning by instructing others.
Coworkers feel more comfortable and open when interacting with a
peer.
Peers share a similar discourse, allowing for greater understanding.
Peer teaching is a financially efficient alternative to hiring more staff
members.
Organizations receive more time to focus on the next steps.

4. ‘Teaching peers is one of the best
ways to develop mastery”
Jeff Attwood, Stack Overflow

5. Peer learning is receiving an increasingly
important role in a changing workforce.
It may be time to formalize peer learning within
corporations and businesses.

6. 1. Do employees have enough agency to
pursue peer learning and peer teaching?

7. 2. Is peer-to-peer empowerment positively
reinforced in the workshop?

8. 3. What steps can businesses take to provide
better policy to promote peer-to-peer
learning?

9. Join our panel!