Technology-Using Professors Group News
"'Crowdsourcing,' the notion of using the wisdom of the crowd for sites like Wikipedia, could be making its way into academe as a grading method that holds students more accountable.
"A professor at Duke University plans to test just that this fall, when she leaves the evaluation of class assignments up to her students, using crowdsourcing to make students responsible for grading each other.
GR: Don't mistake this for an attempt to reduce the professor's workload -- there are sound pedagogical reasons why this is a great idea! Of course there are dangers to be avoided, as with any sort of peer review or peer feedback system. I also suspect the work required of the educator to implement the system would not be insignificant...
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