07 May 2006
Providing Feedback to Online Learners
Personalised feedback is important to students and so is the speed of this feedback. Peter Taylor The Learning Innovator lecturer mentioned that students surveyed felt the most valuable feedback was "pushing" by their peers in discussion forums. A well designed conversational process was also highly valued.
QUT Student Services sent a fortnightly email to students asking if they could help students re the library. The students felt there was no sense of community because of the use of mass email.
Students are looking for a personal response. It takes a lot of time for personalised feedback.
Each time a student is weak on a point the teacher could go to the student and give the extra touch - use technology here! I would set up a group in Blackboard for each student and each group would have just me and one student in it. I had this in the MOOM course and it worked really well for personalised feedback.
QUT Student Services sent a fortnightly email to students asking if they could help students re the library. The students felt there was no sense of community because of the use of mass email.
Students are looking for a personal response. It takes a lot of time for personalised feedback.
Each time a student is weak on a point the teacher could go to the student and give the extra touch - use technology here! I would set up a group in Blackboard for each student and each group would have just me and one student in it. I had this in the MOOM course and it worked really well for personalised feedback.
