Background. Studies have shown that the collaborative processing of feedback on a jointly produced text facilitates language learning in traditional classroom. However, it is still unknown whether there are similar benefits when provided through an online modality from expert peer during international virtual exchange (IVE).
 Purpose. The present study fills this gap literature by investig...

As class sizes increase, methods of assessments shift from costly traditional approaches (e.g. expert-graded writing assignments) to more economic and logistically feasible methods (e.g. multiple-choice testing, computer-automated scoring, or peer assessment). While each method of assessment has its merits, it is peer assessment in particular, especially when made available online through a Web...

Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this paper investigates the effects of different sources of social capital on student creativity. A sample of 216 graduate students from a leading Chinese research university were surveyed regarding their social capital and creativity. Our results indicated that the peer, advisor, and expert social capital of graduate students can independently and interactivel...

Intervention Women were allocated to education (n=79), peer discussion (n=74), education plus peer discussion (n=82), or control (n=77), approximately 3 months after diagnosis. Each group comprised 7 small groups of 8–12 women. Education consisted of 8 weekly 45 minute meetings in which an expert lectured on a topic (eg, nutrition), followed by a brief question and answer period. The goal of th...

Higher education is not only about transmitting knowledge; it is about becoming a member of an expert community. Contemporary tools for on-line learning can be used in opening the learning environment and making the learning process more transparent so that the learners can rely on and benefit from each other in peer-to-peer fashion.

The fallibility of forensic science consultation is an ongoing and major justice concern. Prospective peer-reviewed forensic consultation has over 10 years of application in American criminal and civil courts, adapting from the traditional oversight of teaching hospitals, rules of evidence and discovery, conventions of testimony of expert witnesses, and attorneys' overall trial strategy. In sys...

AIM To examine the feasibility of using peer review for the quality control of online materials. METHODS We analyzed the inter-rater agreement on the quality of epidemiological lectures online, based on the Global Health Network Supercourse lecture library. We examined the agreement among reviewers by looking at kappa statistics and intraclass correlations. Seven expert reviewers examined and...

Access to current, complete and relevant knowledge is a key competitive differentiator in the present economic market space. But most knowledge management today only shifts the traditional, expert-based KM processes onto electronic media. This paper discusses a paradigm shift from an expert-centric to a peer-to-peer approach to knowledge creation and management. Leveraging the lowered transacti...

OBJECTIVES Efficient identification of subject experts or expert communities is vital for the growth of any organization. Most of the available expert finding systems are based on self-nomination, which can be biased, and are unable to rank experts. Thus, the objective of this work was to develop a robust and unbiased expert finding system which can quantitatively measure expertise. METHODS M...