In Fall 2018, 281 students in an Introductory Biology course at the University of California Santa Barbara were assigned two writing-to-learn peer learning activities in Eli Review. Faculty members Mike Wilton, Eduardo Gonzalez, and Rolf Christofferson developed the prompts initially as part of the NSF-sponsored STEMWrite Institute. They then refined the prompts as part of […]
Read MoreIt is August and we are heading into our 10th Fall semester helping students and teachers! It has been a year of growth and change for the Eli Review team. Perhaps the biggest change is in that our colleague and longtime head of product Mike McLeod took a new position as Vice President and User […]
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Start your Eli Review course by explaining why peer feedback matters and how to give helpful feedback. This video shows how to load from Eli’s task library a write-review-revise cycle that exposes students to multiple reasons for why peer learning helps them practice making effective revision decisions. Use it as a low-stakes activity for students […]
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In Fall 2018, six instructors at the University of Arizona piloted Eli Review peer feedback and revision in the following courses: Courses Number of Reviews Number of Revision Plans First-Year Writing(fully online) 5-7 5 Nutritional Science 4 4 Fashion 1 1 Social and Behavioral Science Skills (Adobe Creative Cloud) 6 5 At the conclusion of […]
Read MoreWhat is the workshop about? Eli Review is a peer learning app for feedback and revision. Each month, a free online professional development workshop encourages faculty to reframe peer review in their classes. What do participants do? Participants get to be students Monday-Thursday, July 8-11 and then get instructor access on Friday, July 12. They […]
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