Annals of outsourcing: grading writing assignments
If they choose to, UAE universities to hire lots of cheap, qualified graders to give students feedback on their writing assignments. Having students write more is a highly effective way to get students to improve their writing skills; but they need feedback (and the incentive of an accurate grade). The bottleneck is having enough skilled graders.
From Inside Higher Ed:
From Inside Higher Ed:
That shortcoming led Ms. Whisenant, director of business law and ethics studies at Houston, to a novel solution last fall. She outsourced assignment grading to a company whose employees are mostly in Asia. Virtual-TA, a service of a company called EduMetry Inc., took over. The goal of the service is to relieve professors and teaching assistants of a traditional and sometimes tiresome taskāand even, the company says, to do it better than TA's can.There's evidence that use of the service results in a decline in the number of students dropping a course.
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Mr. Bangari, who is based in Bangalore, India, oversees a group of assessors who work from their homes. He says his job is to see that the graders, many of them women with children who are eager to do part-time work, provide results that meet each client's standards and help students improve.
Labels: education, markets in everything, outsourcing
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I hear that Mindbounce is about to make a huge comeback and they are now Dubai based.
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