Peer Reviews in a Web Design Course: Now Students like Them Too

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• 关键词：Peer review ; Team work ; Motivation ; Acceptance ; Web design
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10108
• 期：1
• 页码：624-634
• 丛书名：Emerging Technologies for Education
• ISBN：978-3-319-52836-6
• 卷排序：10108

文摘

For several years we have used peer reviews in a web design course. The students published web content, originally in form of blog articles, and they received feedback in form of peer reviews from their colleagues. In the previous run of the course, this method helped us to improve the learning outcomes, however the students did not perceive the publishing/reviewing activity very well; they felt it is too much work and they are forced to do it. In the last two runs of the course we tried to cope with this problem by replacing blog development by more free web design-related assignments the topic of which the students were allowed to choose. They could come up with their own project. The students worked in teams, and peer reviews did not focus entirely on web content, but also on more technical aspects of the task like layout design, and on the team work inside the teams. The learning outcomes were approximately the same, however the students’ perception of the usefulness of the publishing/reviewing activities was much improved, as much as their overall satisfaction with the course.