Amy, I found this chapter and your discussion very interesting in regard to feedback. I agree that students will definitely care more about the assessment than the feedback- perhaps because they have been trained that way. In the United States, many public schools are notorious for teaching to standardized exams, and the assessment form those exams can hold a student back from going on to the next grade. Feedback definitely is important, though. With MOOCS, however, it would be hard to give consistent feedback. The "MASSIVE" in Massive Open Online Courses definitely does not mesh well with the teaching of writing. Most writing classes have a smaller amount of students.

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