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I teach a mobile dev class at a University and I'm always excited about new edtech. But I don't see how this is different from other LMSs. Not saying it isn't,

I teach a mobile dev class at a University and I'm always excited about new edtech. But I don't see how this is different from other LMSs. Not saying it isn't, just that your value prop isn't clear to me. Personally I don't believe in peer reviews for my class. I tried it but the problem is that the students don't know what they're doing yet - so when I reviewed their peer review comments, they often were extremely short and poorly written, or even plain wrong advice. Students themselves said they didn't benefit from the peer reviews, both giving and receiving. But even if I did believe in peer learning (I'm not claiming it can never work) - how exactly would your LMS help with that?

utdiscant 5y ago
Thanks for this! Peer review is super tricky. It is something that can work well if things are set up right, and very poorly if not. Some of my learnings from Peergrade and Eduflow is that good peer review experiences come down to getting a few things right. 1. You want to make sure students have time to do it well. Instead of asking students to give feedback to large amounts of work, reduce the workload. Rather good feedback to one submission than poor feedback to three. 2. Use really good guiding feedback rubrics. These should help students write feedback that is actually useful. Instead of asking "Give feedback on the style" which can lead to "Great style", you want to ask things like "Find a place in the code where the style is good, and explain why it is good". 3. Ask learners to give feedback on the feedback they receive, and use that to incentivize learners to give good feedback. In my own courses using peer review, around 20-30% of the final grade was based on feedback quality. There are of course many other parts to this, but those are some of the most important. Eduflow has a bunch of functionality to support this, including a feedback reflection activity etc.

utdiscant 5y ago

Thanks for this! Peer review is super tricky. It is something that can work well if things are set up right, and very poorly if not. Some of my learnings from Peergrade and Eduflow is that good peer review experiences come down to getting a few things right. 1. You want to make sure students have time to do it well. Instead of asking students to give feedback to large amounts of work, reduce the workload. Rather good feedback to one submission than poor feedback to three. 2. Use really good guiding feedback rubrics. These should help students write feedback that is actually useful. Instead of asking "Give feedback on the style" which can lead to "Great style", you want to ask things like "Find a place in the code where the style is good, and explain why it is good". 3. Ask learners to give feedback on the feedback they receive, and use that to incentivize learners to give good feedback. In my own courses using peer review, around 20-30% of the final grade was based on feedback quality. There are of course many other parts to this, but those are some of the most important. Eduflow has a bunch of functionality to support this, including a feedback reflection activity etc.