Editorial

Abstract

This is the second part of a Special Edition of the JLDHE focussing on academic peer learning. This issue includes a further ten articles (five papers and five case studies) exploring a wide range of features associated with peer learning in higher education, including issues of culture, communication, community and employability, as well as academic learning. This collection offers insights into subject-specific as well as more general approaches, and covers varying contexts, including online environments.In a subject-specific study, Jill Barber and Sadaf Ilias describe their use of peer assisted learning to raise students' awareness of the problem of antibiotic resistance. Illustrating the efficiency and effectiveness of the approach, they describe how peer assisted learning successfully cascaded knowledge from a single fourth year student to 21 second year students, and then to over 700 students from various disciplines and year groups.