Eli Review https://elireview.com Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:28:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.9 You’ve Totally Got This, Part II https://elireview.com/2023/10/27/youve-totally-got-this-part-ii/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 09:00:52 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=6166 Giving helpful feedback to other writers is challenging. There’s a lot to get right: notice strengths and weaknesses, explain why, and offer suggestions for improvement. Peer review is learning by […]]]> This post is a part of the series Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Learning. Giving helpful feedback to other writers is challenging. There’s a lot to get right: notice strengths and weaknesses, explain why, and offer suggestions for improvement. Peer review is learning by doing, and that means mistakes are a valuable part of the process. In Part 1 of this post, we acknowledged that some...

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]]> You’ve Totally Got This, Part I https://elireview.com/2023/10/20/youve-got-this-part-i/ Fri, 20 Oct 2023 09:00:04 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=6159 Over the past few months, this blog series has addressed design challenges in peer learning. The first four posts focused on things teachers can do to make feedback routine, productive, […]]]> This post is a part of the series Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Learning. Over the past few months, this blog series has addressed design challenges in peer learning. The first four posts focused on things teachers can do to make feedback routine, productive, focused, and useful for revision. The previous two posts (“No Pain, No Gain” part 1 and part 2) began our consideration of issues...

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]]> Release Notes: Automatic Grouping, Late Grouping, and Review Scheduling https://elireview.com/2023/07/18/release-notes-automatic-grouping-late-grouping-and-review-scheduling/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 15:45:55 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=10097 We’re releasing several new features and updates that save instructors time and help solve the Late Writers problem. Instructors can now select the Automatic grouping type to have Eli automatically create reviewer groups when a review starts. Importantly, Eli will only group students who have submitted their writing task before the review starts, so students who are ready will only be grouped with...

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]]> Is A Feedback-Based Approach to Learning Inclusive? https://elireview.com/2023/05/04/is-a-feedback-based-approach-to-learning-inclusive/ Fri, 05 May 2023 01:58:52 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9921 This Spring, I’ve had the good fortune to travel around the country and talk with folks at several universities. We’re talking about a few issues that seem to be on everybody’s mind. AI and writing. Student success in the midst of a lingering pandemic. And what it means to practice a pedagogy of inclusion. Universities have long sought to measure the quality of their instruction by how *exclusive*

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]]> A Focus on Practice Means There is No Need to Panic about AI Writing https://elireview.com/2023/01/20/a-focus-on-practice-means-there-is-no-need-to-panic-about-ai-writing/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:50:07 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9770 “Show Your Work!” This is what my math teachers and chemistry teachers used to ask on every exam. Even if we could use a calculator in algebra, we had to show our work so that the teacher could get a sense of how we were thinking and reasoning our way through a problem. In writing but also in other disciplines, with a simple prompt, students can use AI to produce some impressive first drafts that...

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]]> San Francisco State Spring 2023 Office Hours https://elireview.com/2023/01/02/sfsu-spring-2023-office-hours/ Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:15:41 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9751 San Francisco State University is one of Eli Review’s long-time institutional partners. Since Fall 2015, we’ve offered a wide range of professional development opportunities for teaching peer feedback and revision. We are delighted to continue that tradition in 2022-2023 with the continued support from SFSU’s CEETL. Instructors meet Fridays at 10 AM Pacific on Zoom for half-hour conversation to...

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]]> Professional Development Workshop Schedule https://elireview.com/2022/12/12/professional-development-workshop-schedule-spring-2023/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:44:20 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9736 Instructors use Eli Review to assign online peer learning that increases students’ critical thinking and engagement. Seeing the app work helps instructors imagine how Eli can fit in their own syllabus. That’s where our free online professional development workshops start. Participants share a syllabus blurb or talking points for explaining why peer feedback is valuable. Then...

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]]> Making a Horse Drink https://elireview.com/2022/11/10/making-a-horse-drink/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 10:00:43 +0000 http://elireview.com/?p=6223 Peer learning has common problems, and this blog series reframes them as pedagogical design challenges. Instructors and students struggle with peer learning because of different expectations. Instructors often underestimate how […]]]> This post is a part of the series Challenges and Opportunities in Peer Learning. Peer learning has common problems, and this blog series reframes them as pedagogical design challenges. Instructors and students struggle with peer learning because of different expectations. Instructors often underestimate how much practice students need, how much can be learned by studying students’ practice...

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]]> Automatically create reviewer groups with the practice bus! https://elireview.com/2022/10/24/the-practice-bus-brings-automatic-grouping-to-eli-review/ Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:18:04 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9655   The Practice Bus The “practice bus” is a metaphor. It is our way of characterizing a new feature that exists because you requested it. The “bus” automatically creates review […]]]> The Practice Bus The “practice bus” is a metaphor. It is our way of characterizing a new feature that exists because you requested it. The “bus” automatically creates review groups as students complete their work and are ready for feedback. It is an easier way to facilitate reciprocal feedback between students who require flexible deadlines, especially in large classes and in an online or hybrid...

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]]> Professional Development Workshop Schedule https://elireview.com/2022/09/28/professional-development-workshop-schedule-fall2022-2/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 20:14:10 +0000 https://elireview.com/?p=9649 Instructors use Eli Review to assign online peer learning that increases students’ critical thinking and engagement. Seeing the app work helps instructors imagine how Eli can fit in their own syllabus. That’s where our free online professional development workshops start. Participants share a syllabus blurb or talking points for explaining why peer feedback is valuable. Then...

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