Thank you!
All your help made possible our article here in Educause Review – following a great discussion at the the 2016 Ann Ferren Conference. You can watch the panel here, or see the PowerPoint. Special thanks to Dr Melissa Scholes Young, Sarah McKinley ’19, and Chandler Randol ’18. More from the Ann Ferren Conference is here. Thanks again for all your help. And from a prior presentation on MOOCs.
Help! In preparation for a conference on teaching and learning, a couple of us are asking students: online courses are popular with students, but what do they like and not like about those courses?
If you’ve taken an online course (esp. from a college/university), please take a few minutes to share your thoughts about any or all of these questions. Please post (anonymously, if you like) at the bottom of this page. And please share with a friend! Thanks very much–
JQ
Why did you choose to take an online course? Convenience (“location”)? Asynchronous (any time)? Course topic? Requirement (graduate early, etc.)? or a combination of these, or something else?
Did you expect the course to be easier or more difficult than a regular course? Was it?
What was the best surprise of the online-aspects of the course? Not “the book was good,” but something about the course’s “online-ness.”
What was most disappointing about the course? Not “the book was bad,” but something about the course’s “online-ness.”
Material was presented in a variety of ways: assigned books in hard-copy, online readings, instructor’s videos (on Blackboard, YouTube, etc.), third-party videos (C-SPAN, Disney, YouTube, etc.), instructor’s online PowerPoints or other written notes, etc. Which of these was most helpful/effective? Which of these was least helpful/effective?
How was the “classroom community”? What efforts were made to facilitate discussion among students? What worked, what didn’t?
You have an audience of online instructors – mostly regular university professors who sometimes teach online, or who are about to teach online for the first time. What is the most important thing for them to know?
Thank you so much – please share with a friend or friends – and thanks again!
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