This is pretty remarkable. We have use MTurk to help develop educational content and have thought about using virtual TAs to help w/research and tutoring, but n

This is pretty remarkable. We have use MTurk to help develop educational content and have thought about using virtual TAs to help w/research and tutoring, but not for actual grading. To me, that feels a bit like a stretch. However, on the other hand, if you've got qualified people that can do a better job than you can do as a professor, then you may actually be doing your students a service by using this platform. Educational services are quickly becoming a global market. Quick example. Our CTO was less of a believer in the power of MTurk. We (www.nixty.com) were converting a physics course from MIT. The tests were in PDF form. (a. problems; b. solutions). We wanted them to be in multiple choice form. No one on the team had the capability to create relevant multiple choice responses. We created a HIT on MTurk. A guy from Bangalore signed up for the HIT. He had a Master's in Science and had taught Physics earlier in his career. He banged out the multiple choice responses in a day. We had them cross-checked and they were solid. Pretty cool, right?