I'm signed up for that particular class and I've been wondering how it was going to go.
The workload looks reasonably significant, which I'm happy about. I'm a little skeptical of peer grading of essays, but it's something they've got to figure out for the future.
Every class I've done so far has had a tiny minority of forum whining about grades. I'm expecting it to be notably higher in this class, but we'll see how it goes...
EDIT: Oh, nevermind, I've found it. It seems that student grade each other's essays - one student grades three other students.
Look here, under Peer Evaluation: http://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fantasysf/Documents/Wor...