I believe that the use of evaluation is crucial to the learning process. As it helps the instructor to see the progress the students are making during the semister.
I believe that the subject material should be relevant so as to get students excited for learning.
I have discoved the impportance of revision of lessons. I also believe that students need every possible support they can get from their instructor and therir peers.
Instructors shoud always remember to have multiple evaluations and multiple inputs from your stakeholders to improve your online course.
For 20 years I have had a system for doing this, course revision, if you track what you did last time you can improve it next time.
Always use mulitple evaluations and sources.
While I haven't had the opportunity to revise a course, I see the benefit of having my peers reviewing my redesign. As mentioned in the module, many of them are professionals and can offer a different perspective to the design, flow, and impact.
Learned Multiple evaluations are needed for learning. Get student feedback to change my course content. Using multiple tools to provide feedback that is needed to make critical, meaningful, continuous changes that enhance your online course.
Having students maintain a portfolio of the major assignments is helpful in evaluating the course, but may also be beneficial to the student in reviewing the concepts they have learned throughout the class. It can also be used as a comprehensive study guide. Pre/Post test are wonderful indicators of students progress in the subject over time as well.
I like the thought of reaching out to parents or other partys to get feed back. This is a slipperly slope as well reaching out to parents as they often do not see or hear the whole story or process from their children. Reviews are very important and we will continue to change and think of new ways to poll for new views.
I learned that performing a syllabus scan will allow you to determine if the content and what you are teaching match. This is also an important tool to use to match industry and institutional needs to the syllabus of the course.
I learned that it is necessay to have multiple evaluations to effectively biuld a course
I learned how import is using different methods of evaluation to improve my course and close the loop.
Course review is a continuous, iterative process that requires the use of multiple tools to capture the considerations of multiple stakeholders.
I have learned ways to post evaluate my on line courses and make them better. I learned that is requires different sources such as students, other educators as wello as reviewing the curriculm.
I do not use any pre and post testing, but I think that may be a great way of priming students learn to objective as well as inform progress.
Concept maps are useful to the visual learner. Introducing them to the online learning environment could enhance the learning experience.
Student feedback, experience, and instructor discussions have led us at our school to recommend multiple changes to courses where material was not necessary, outdated, or just needed adjustment in the order of presentation. It should never be stagnant and instruction/material/courses should be changed often.
Course evaluations require multiple types of data. Course grades are not the only means of evaluation.
Multiple evaluation of your course will give you a well rounded picture of you course . Using these evaluaations cant help you make changes to the course. Continuing this practice and compairing previous evaluations will shown improvements. you should be able to see if the change also increased knowledge in the grades of your participants .
