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discussions have led us at our school to recommend multiple changes to courses where material was not necessary, outdated, or just needed adjustment in the order of presentation.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 .
I should attempt to look at incorporating a couple different evaluation methods.
I am looking forward to implementing the ideas given for multiple evaluations.
What happens with software development also happens with the development of online courses. That is the revision cycle. There are changes that will often be necessary, whether it's how the information is presented or what type of information is added, changed, or deleted. Using multiple forms of qualitative and quantitative feedback from students and from peers also help make the results of the revision cycle that much more effective and successful.
We as instructors, need to continually address how we evaluate students and how we "close the loop" with our instruction. We need to look at different ways to evaluate such as peer evalutions, portfolios, etc. We also need to use different ways to reach learners of all abilities.
Multiple evaluations are necessary in evaluating my course and guides me on how to make course improvements. Additionally, I need to take into account my stakeholders, their comments and insights.
Multiple evaluations are better than one source of evaluation.
You need multiple methods of evaluation
A course should always be evolvling based on technology, changes in curriculum requirements and assessment / evaluation. I like the idea of a peer (fellow instructor) evaluation. I think that could be valuable.
There are a lot of really good evaluation methods discussed here. Students, the institution, and peers, all have a differing methods of potential evaluations. These in combination will enable a helpful and broad overview of the course.
When revising a course it is important to use information from multiple sources. This can include information from self-reflection and information from student feedback and evaluations. Collecting both qualitative and quantitative data will also be helpful.
Revision of the course is key to future students. The students will tell you through their participation what their interests are. You will see what worked and what did not work by analysing their responses in dissscusions and seeing the work that they produce. Overtime, some things may come up that are better resources than the ones that you once used.
Multiple evauations are needed to ensure all stakeholders (instiution, faculty, and student/consumer) are satisfied with the educational program.
First of all, continuous improvement is a myth. Periodic improvements, based on shifting expectations is closer to reality.
Second, it will take multiple tools, from your multiple stakeholders, to provide the feedback that you will need to make periodic changes that improve your online course and satisfy shifting expectations!
Currently, student evaluations are used at the end of courses. From this section, more outside peer to peer instructor evaluation will provide a different outlook for course positives and negatives.
Going to need to evaluate myself from not only students but fellow peers which will ultimatly make my platform more effective.
This module shows that multiple types of evaluations (not only grades, but following the syllabus, pre-test/post-test, creating portfolios, interviews & peer-reviews ) are needed to revise & improve the course as it is being taught. Both quantative & qualitative data should be collected to evaluate the whole course.
