Peer Review

Peer review has essentially become a part of today's learning. It is the process by which learners get feedback from their peers, tutors and experts in the area where they are being tutored. With today's digital ecologies and digital technologies, peer review has increasingly proven useful for getting multiple feedbacks from different sources. People learn as they get feedback and they are able to improve their capacity on the subject that is being learnt.

Peer review may however be summative assessment or formative assessment. While summative assessment provides the learner feedback at the end of the learning process, formative assessment provides the learner feedbacks as the knowledge is being produced. This type of learning process instead of delaying information needed to improve one's knowledge gives the learner the opportunity to identify areas of weaknesses and ways of strenghening the weaknesses.

The peer review that follows the formative assessment is more interested in building progressively knowldge through feedbacks provided by different types of digital ecologies such as machine aided technologies.