Abstract:
PeerWise is web-based learning tool that leverages the familiarity students have with social software and Web 2.0, engaging them directly in the assessment process. Using PeerWise, students work collaboratively with their peers to construct, share, evaluate, answer and discuss a repository of assessment questions relevant to their course. Students are responsible for creating and moderating the resource, typically generating many hundreds of questions and submitting many thousands of answers. Since its first use at the University of Auckland in 2007, more than 200,000 questions and 5 million answers have been contributed by students from over 200 institutions around the world.