Forestry course: community forests group work

I found this case study description crushing. Learners have little autonomy in their educational experience. They are told who they will work with, the projects they will choose from, how they will be graded, etc. I have a few ideas for re-orienting the learning environment in this course. The first would be to rethink and clearly address who is being graded, how and why for iPeer part of the assignment: "I include links on my syllabus on how to complete the iPeer evaluation. The responses from this peer evaluation are integrated into their participation marks. " Is the instructor grading learners in their ability to provide peer feedback? Is the peer feedback going directly to the student whom it is about? Is there a way to speak back to or address this feedback?