Abstract
This presentation explores the significance of the teach-to-learn concept as a next-generation pedagogical model for cultivating communities of practice and the potential of P2P networks to extend the collaborative range of existing course management systems. Within this new framework, the lecture, as a mainstay of traditional education, sheds its primary function as a vehicle for transmitting information and becomes an invitation for critical inquiry, serving as a pedagogical centerpiece for the mastery of focused knowledge domains by students and a focal point for skill development in rubric-based assessment. The presentation will demonstrate some learning tools—developed within a Groove environment—that can be used to implement the teach-to-learn model and will discuss the implications of this approach for breaking the e-learning time barrier and the future of learning.