{"id":11691,"date":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T16:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=11691"},"modified":"2015-04-13T14:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T14:52:13","slug":"moocs-peer-marking-and-reputation-a-placeholder-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/?p=11691","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs, peer marking and reputation – a placeholder post"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m hastily blogging this ‘placeholder’ idea before I forget about it in the whirlwind that is #et4online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The EDCMOOC teaching team<\/a> has been discussing how to make the peer assessment process better. One thing we know we want is for people to be able to give feedback on the feedback they receive from peer markers.<\/p>\n

At the same time I’ve been reading Accelerando (Charles Stross) – part of the premise of that book is a future society based on economics of reputation (Cory Doctorow writes about this as well in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – and maybe others that I can’t remember at the moment).<\/p>\n

So, the bare bones of the idea as it sits at the moment is to:<\/p>\n

a) let people gain reputation throughout the MOOC, and display this next to feedback they provide on peer assignments, so that those receiving the feedback would have one way of ‘reading’ that feedback.<\/p>\n

b) give people with high reputation scores the ability to vet\/filter\/’assess’ peer feedback before it is delivered – perhaps returning comments to the feedback provider, or even asking them to expand, or rephrase…<\/p>\n

Challenges I can think of immediately include:<\/p>\n

– how can all the activity of the MOOC (which for us includes a lot of social media, blogging, twitter activity) contribute to a reputation score?<\/p>\n

– how can a reputation score be meaningful in learning terms? Could people gain reputation on a number of metrics (constructive; challenging; insightful; knowledgeable)? Need to find out more about different approaches to this…<\/p>\n

Amy Collier (sitting at the table across from me at this moment!) tells me that Venturelabs<\/a>\u00a0is working with reputation in their group-based MOOC platform, so there is a basis for this in MOOC developments.<\/p>\n

Ideas or comments very welcome…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m hastily blogging this ‘placeholder’ idea before I forget about it in the whirlwind that is #et4online. The EDCMOOC teaching team has been discussing how to make the peer assessment process better. One thing we know we want is for people to be able to give feedback on the feedback they receive from peer markers. … Continue reading MOOCs, peer marking and reputation – a placeholder post<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11691"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11691\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jenrossity.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}