Investigating Soft Skills Development through Peer Reviews Assessments in an Entrepreneurship Course In this paper we present an approach to stimulate the development of soft skills in tertiary education students, which are seen as critical skills for active citizenship, personal fulfillment and employability in a knowledgedriven society. We developed an online learning setting where technical graduate students practice and gain knowledge on Innovation and Entrepreneurship themes. We present the early results of a peer assessment exercise where students submit assignments and evaluate other assignments made by their colleagues. We employ textual similarity measures and other effort related metrics to understand different learner types emerging in the exercise. Our results foster future directions of research on how soft skills can be studied in online environments. This study contributes to the ongoing debate on how to understand and visualize data coming from online courses and how to further the studentsxe2x80x99 assessment of soft skills development.

Developing a Student Feedback System using a DesignBased Research Approach We have developed a webbased feedback system that students can use to report difficult, easy, engaging, and boring sections of a lecture in realtime. Such feedback can identify potentially problematic lecture content, track cognitiveaffective dynamics in a classroom, and assist instructors in retrospective selfevaluation. We use a mixedmethod approach within a designbased research (DBR) framework. In this paper, we discuss initial development and implementation of the feedback system, which constitutes the first cycle of DBR in the project. We discuss potential usecases of such data and follow the DBR framework to identify strengths and weaknesses in the current prototype and its implementation. Based on such an analysis we come up with a list of modifications for the next cycle of DBR.