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the skill of giving peer feedback requires instructor scaffolding and cultivation

Giving critical feedback that is personal, relevant, and challenging — both on a student level and instructor level — has a positive impact on learning outcomes.

Modeling effective feedback provides good examples for our students to observe and enhances their own peer feedback skills.

Nuvvo is a free, on-demand Learning Management System (LMS) that gives individual instructors the opportunity to publish curriculum and teach online. It offers much of the traditional LMS toolset--including content creation, multimedia integrations, blogs and messaging, evaluation, and ecommerce--without the institutional support that is typically required for an LMS. http://www.nuvvo.com/ 

Many educators have a nagging concern that students will plagiarize work submitted for key written assignments. That is why experts in the field of academic integrity, such as Donald McCabe, have long suggested that a method to avoid plagiarism is to use guided research projects. A guided research project is one that is scaffolded into stages, such as an outline, a few drafts, and then a final submission. Guided research brings transparency to the writing process.

The Dropbox tool

is a powerful tool for implementing guided research strategies

The role of a Personal Learning Environment may be not only that of a tool to provide access to ‘More Knowledgeable Others’ but as part of a system to allow learners to link learning to performance in practice, though work processes. And taking a wider view of artefacts as including information or knowledge accessed through a PLE, reflection on action or performance may in turn generate new artefacts for others to use within a ZPD

I believe that it is likely that we see a decreasing need of instructors as more knowledgeable others in order to learn something, but an increasing need of instructors as more knowledgeable others in order to learn how to learn something