Peer reviews: make them public

Disadvantages of Peer Reviews

Peereviz: Visualizing Peer Reviews

Peer reviews is one possible solution in scaling assessment of open-ended assignment in massive online open courses. However, the amount of data from peer review process is huge and it becomes difficult to explore and understand. In this paper, we present Peereviz, an exploration tool for largescale peer review that helps course instructors to understand and gain insights from the peer review a...

Incentivizing anonymous “peer-to-peer” reviews

The review cycle for papers takes way too long in many disciplines. The problem is that while authors want to have their own papers reviewed fast, that are often unwilling to review the papers of others in a timely manner. This paper explores what would be required to incentivize fast reviews using a public reputation/scoring system that exploits the fact that the referees are drawn from the sa...

Can we really make them work ?

Besides being a distribution medium for up-to-date information, the Internet provides professional communities of users with an infrastructure for collaborative work. An important problem, however, is that groups working over the Internet often fail to accomplish their goals. In this paper our focus is on one category of professional communities, namely research networks. These are networks of ...

Extending Annotations to Make them Truly Valuable

Although the basic idea of annotations is rather old most web material does not allow for annotations. Even if it does, annotations are usually little used. However, research shows that annotations are potentially an important part of digital libraries and particularly eLearning: they can help users to learn more easily by (collaboratively) adding comments, links and bookmarks, thus personalizi...