This article asks how we maintain quality in peer-produced e-learning, but I think critical readers are more important. You can't set up an educational system by vetting the quality of every resource; it's just too labour-intensive. But if you prepare your readers to assess resources for themselves, you can make a much larger body of resources available to them. This paper proposes a quality mechanism enabled through peer validation. "The peer validation work can include benchmarking (comparing the produced content with other sources), peer reviews (systematically validating the content with other peers and peer groups), peer reflection (reflecting the content with other peers) and peer learning (joint learning and mutual development through continuous assessment)." Fair enough - but peer validation should not be allowed to operate as a substitute for individual critical assessment, and even more importantly, it should not be allowed to degenerate into peer popularity. More articles from the current elearning papers.
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