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From: ComputerWorld

A group of teachers from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Rey Juan Carlos University) have adopted the blog as a regular in their teaching and take into account when evaluating the score given to students contributions of their peers.

A group of teachers from the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) has adopted the blog as a regular in their teaching. The novelty of this project is that not only allows students to make entries in a specific website, but the teacher has in mind when putting the note, the scores of classmates have been together.
The system, say the makers, is very simple. Students in a particular subject are to create a blog. These are syndicated to a 'Planet', a website where entries made by students in their own blogs are added in reverse chronological order , as if they were part of a single blog.
Blogs are already being used very commonly in other universities, but what makes this initiative different is that it allows students rate and value the contributions of their peers in a single ' planet. " Each student is given a certain number of points to distribute among the entries of other students.
teacher responsible for the group, the main advantage is that students, to also create content and not be mere consumers of what we provide teachers are more involved in the learning process. addition, they also argue that the effect of public visibility of its material is very motivating for them.