In higher education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines (STEM disciplines), there is still a prevailing belief that teachers have pedagogical competencies at the beginning of their careers or will acquire them in the course of their teaching careers, if necessary. However, research shows that most teachers teach in the same way as they were taught, which rarely leads to improvements in the pedagogical process. Therefore, to ensure continuous improvement of the learning process, it is necessary to ensure continuous professional development of teachers (CPD) in higher education about new pedagogical practices. At the same time, educational methods must be adapted to higher education teachers, who usually work under high time pressure. One of the appropriate tools for pedagogical training of teachers are online courses MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), which allow asynchronous learning and thus independent time allocation for learning. In their teaching practice, teachers hold on to the traditional way of teaching especially when it comes to assessment. On the one hand, teachers find it difficult to objectively assess the work of (many) students, especially when assessing complex tasks, and to provide quality feedback to each individual in the group; but on the other hand, they avoid involving students in the assessment process because they do not trust them to be fair and able to correctly assess their peers. Numerous studies have successfully refuted this type of prejudice. We therefore presented peer assessment as a possible supplement or substitute for teacher assessment. To help teachers correctly implement peer assessment in the learning process, we created a microMOOC (short form of a MOOC) titled "Better evaluation with student's peer assessment". In it, we presented various benefits of peer assessment for student learning and progress, best practices for implementing peer assessment, and tools to help students properly assess their peers. We prepared the μMOOC in the form of an online classroom on the Moodle platform. The course includes a variety of different content types such as videos, presentations, quizzes, questionnaires and forums.
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