The best educational innovations are born of necessity. That’s exactly what happened with Peergrade creator David Kofoed Wind when he came up with the idea as a way to streamline the classes he taught. As a computer science and data professor at Technical University of Denmark, Wind faced a time crunch when his popular Big Data course ballooned from 20 students to 150 students in just one semester’s time. Wind realized he would need a minimum of 2 to 3 hours daily just to glance over each student’s written work. The addition of helpful feedback would mean even more time buried …
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