Elevating Peer Feedback in the OLC Advanced Online Teaching Certificate Program

Empowering Instructional Designers through Peer Review

Peerceptiv is excited to begin partnering with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) to provide peer learning support in continuing education courses. The OLC’s Advanced Online Teaching Certificate (AOTC) is a 12-week program designed to help educators refine existing online courses and degree programs to improve student learning. Peer feedback is a key component of this process, with participants frequently gaining valuable insights by collaborating with colleagues from other institutions.

The Online Learning Consortium chose Peerceptiv to streamline and elevate the peer review process, creating a more intuitive and impactful experience for learners. Over two weeks, participants focus on evaluating and improving the assessments in their online courses. Peerceptiv enables them to share their ideas and receive detailed feedback from peers, helping them refine their plans and make thoughtful improvements to their course assignments.

“Peerceptiv takes peer review to the next level! The integration with Canvas, and the ability to add multiple levels of review and multiple due dates, means a richer experience for learners. We are finding it works great for a peer review assignment spread over multiple weeks, [giving] everyone time to really dig in and share detailed feedback.”

– Cindy Schanke, Instructional Designer for the OLC’s Advanced Online Teaching Certificate

In the process of completing this assignment and other activities throughout the AOTC program, faculty explore tools like Peerceptiv while learning to apply new techniques and theories to elevate their course design and teaching skills. The OLC offers this program and many other professional development opportunities via their Center for Professional Learning.

Explore Peerceptiv for Your Courses

For instructional designers seeking impactful peer engagement tools, Peerceptiv provides a versatile, research-backed platform that enhances learning through structured feedback and assessment. Whether you’re looking to encourage critical thinking, streamline grading, or foster teamwork, Peerceptiv adapts to a wide range of course needs with the following capabilities:

• Research-Validated & Reliable Grading: Peerceptiv generates valid and reliable grades for the quality of student submissions and reviewing behavior, making grading easier for instructors and holding students accountable during the review process.
• Peer Review and Assessment: Instructors can easily engage students with writing, presentation, video upload, computer code, group projects, and almost any other assessment around which a rubric may be written. Students learn by reviewing and receiving feedback from peers, building critical thinking and communication skills as they engage with their peers in a collaborative learning environment. Assign authentic assessments while providing learners with the feedback they need to succeed.
• Live Presentations: Peer assessment for live presentations that actively engages students in the audience online or in the classroom in rubric-based peer reviewing. Generate real-time data about the quality of the presentation and assess the accuracy and helpfulness of the students who provide the peer reviews.
• Team Member Evaluation: Allows students to provide quantitative and qualitative feedback to group members to improve collaboration skills and group dynamics. This may include 360-style reviews, unique rubric standards for different group roles, and other capabilities that develop essential teamwork and workplace skills.

Interested in learning more?

Contact info@peerceptiv.com to discuss how our platform can support your course goals.