Objectives & Overview - Facilitating Peer Feedback
Barrier in Brief
Quality feedback is very important for student learning. However, one-way feedback from faculty to students will not foster the type of divergent and creative thinking that most faculty want their students to develop. Moreover, instructors are often pressed for time and thus find it difficult to provide high quality feedback to students.
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- Overview & Objectives
- Lesson
- Questions and Comments
Lesson Overview
In this lesson, instructors will be exposed to strategies for supporting students who would benefit from providing and/or receiving quality peer feedback. This includes meeting needs of students who are unsure as to how to provide quality feedback and also addresses using some of the unique features of Canvas to make peer feedback successful. This strategy is representative of...
Regarding this checkpoint, the UDLGuidelines.org says,
"In the 21st century, all learners must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively within a community of learners. This is easier for some than others, but remains a goal for all learners. The distribution of mentoring through peers can greatly increase the opportunities for one-on-one support. When carefully structured, such peer cooperation can significantly increase the available support for sustained engagement. Flexible rather than fixed grouping allows better differentiation and multiple roles, as well as providing opportunities to learn how to work most effectively with others. Options should be provided in how learners build and utilize these important skills."
Lesson Objective(s)
By the end of this module, instructors should be able to...
- Identify strategies for enhancing peer feedback, particularly through the "critical friends" model.
- Utilize Canvas features to facilitate systematic peer feedback.
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