Top News - Instructor to outsource grading ... to students - 1 views
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Burks Oakley on 12 Oct 09Good paper about how a Duke professor is "crowdsourcing" the grading process - outsourcing grades to the entire class (the "crowd").
It's the latest chapter in an evolving debate about the place of innovation in higher education. Is outsourcing teaching -- especially for huge and often poorly run introductory courses -- a way for colleges to catch up with other industries and rein in out-of-control costs? Or does it mean gutting what makes universities special?
