Online education next wave: peer to peer learning

Abstract

Online education is no longer a trend; it is slowly but surely becoming a norm. It has become a global phenomenon driven by the onslaught of coronavirus pandemic, emergence of new learning platforms, and wide acceptance of teaching and learning in online synchronous and asynchronous modes by diverse stakeholders. Current online education technologies and platforms emphasize interactions between professors and students. Through the holistic model of online education, we emphasize in this article student-to-student (peer-to-peer) learning in the online mode similar to what exists in the traditional F2F mode. The evolving student-to-student interactional SolveitNow model at present covers tertiary education students. With requisite changes, it can be easily applicable to secondary and primary education students. SolveItNow is currently in beta testing on a large scale at multiple levels of Mathematics education.