Top 5 Learning Lab Resources on Peer Learning

Peer learning takes places in many different ways—some formal and some more informal. Peer learning activities are critical to generating new knowledge by capturing and sharing ideas. This new knowledge can then be leveraged by the group to change the way its members do their work and also shared with a larger peer network to influence an industry. These activities have been implemented across sectors and with varying numbers of individuals. Explore some key resources below to find out how others are putting peer learning into practice.

1. The Art of Knowledge Exchange and eLearning course
   This step-by-step, user-friendly practice guide from the World Bank, along with the associated online course, are helpful tools for any development practitioner interested in designing results-oriented knowledge exchanges. This guide and course can assist practitioners in playing a more effective role as a knowledge connector and learning facilitator.
   
   
2. Global Health Knowledge Collaborative Toolkit and associated case study
   While the toolkit provides a wealth of materials related to all aspects of generating, capturing, sharing, and adapting knowledge, check out the section on knowledge sharing activities for specifics on peer learning. To understand how these activities might be applied in practice, read the case study on how communities were used to encourage South-to-South knowledge sharing and product development.
   
   
3. Promoting Resilient Infrastructure Through Peer Learning  
   Explore this first-hand account from a Climate Leadership Academy workshop that brought together stakeholders across Latin America and the Caribbean to address a common set of climate stressors that strain existing infrastructure services and impact economic, social, and environmental systems.
   
   
4. Using an Online Community of Practice to Encourage Learning and Knowledge Exchange in Diverse Settings
   The University of North Carolina’s Global Learning Program established a community of practice for mid-level health professionals in diverse settings, allowing them to share experiences through a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange forum. Read about this unique approach where the participants successfully transitioned from coursework into a community of practice.
   
   
5. Using Peer Learning to Develop 100% Market-Driven Program Design
   Read about this peer learning, action research project that supports the identification and implementation of strategies to promote demand-driven workforce development projects that prepare youth for quality employment or self-employment, and to develop metrics to assess the effectiveness of these strategies.