This document provides a list of best practices, including ways to determine purpose and types of questions and to set up assignments, for writing peer instruction questions used in myDalite platform (Distributed Active Learning Integrated Technology Environment), developed in house at SALTISE as a free open-source web-based platform that promotes conceptual learning. With myDALITE, teachers can use the same questions in class in polling mode, or assign questions as out-of-class homework through any learning management system.
DownloadmyDALITE is a platform that engages learners in the cognitive tasks of self-explanation, comparison and evaluation of peer explanations, and reflection. myDALITE provides instructors with the flexibility to ask questions through polls, to assign questions as homework using any learning management system, or to use a course pack of curated multiple-choice questions.