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Small group discussions or collaborative and cooperative learning are used within university programs to enhance students’ learning outcomes and develop particular graduate attributes. Through peer-to-peer learning approach, students in small groups collaborate with others, taking responsibility for their own learning and deepening their understanding of the learning content. Face-to-face lectures are inflexible to our postgraduate students. To solve this universal problem, blending learning which combines traditional face-to-face classroom methods with online teaching is a solution. The purpose of this study is to conduct an innovative learning approach of the blended learning model: adapting peer-to-peer learning through discussion in the classroom environment and online discussion board. Postgraduates who studied Information Systems course were selected for this pilot study. At the end of the course, a survey was conducted to evaluate this approach. 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