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Stephen Downes

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This article comes with a warning about offensive content, and this is kind of the point. The argument here is that anonymous feedback on teachers should be discontinued because the students offer offensive (and frequently irrelevant) comments in their responses. I've had several thoughts. First, the same sort of thing persists (albeit to a lesser degree) in anonymous peer review. Second, I wonder what it is about our society that leads students to believe such reviews are appropriate. And third, I wonder whether AI is yet to the point where the offensive content could be removed from the reviews, as if it never existed.

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