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Effective online instructors conduct course evaluation during teaching and use the evaluation data to improve their teaching or for future course improvement.
Explanation
To ensure that courses are responsive to rapidly changing technologies and applications, challenge students to discover substantive errors, and award a modest(i.e., 10 points out of 500 total) “finder’s fee” to those who discover and report such errors.
Benefits
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Rating
Source: Ragan, L.C.&Terheggen, S.L. (2003). Effective workload management strategies for the online environment. Retrieved July 6, 2006, from Penn State World Campus Web site: (External Link)
1. How would you rate your overall experience in teaching your online course on a scale of 1 to 7?
2. How well do you think students liked this online version of the course in comparison to a resident version?
3. Overall, how well did students in this course do in comparison to how students do in your resident sections? Why do you think that is?
4. Were there any specific tools or learning activities that you thought were particularly effective in this course? Please describe.
5. Were there any specific tools or learning activities that did not work as well as you had hoped in this course? Please describe.
6. What changes would you like to make to this course for the next offering? Please list in order of priority.
7. Teaching this course took: (don't include time spent developing the course)
8. How well did the Course Management System perform for this class?
9. As much as possible, we'd like to teach online courses without using in-person proctored exams. If your course currently has proctored exams, do you think this change would work for your course?
10. What one piece of advice would you give to a faculty member teaching online for the first time?
11. Would you recommend teaching online to another member of your department? Why or why not?
To hear insights from experienced online instructors about preparing for online teaching, access any or all of the following interviews. Please make sure your audio is enabled.
“Through careful instructional design, support, and guidance from the instructor, along with ongoing feedback from students to the instructor and from the instructor to the students, an online course can evolve into a robust, productive, and enjoyable learning community” (Kleinman, 2005, p.17).
Kleinman, S. (2005). Strategies for encouraging active learning, interaction, and academic integrity in online courses. Communication Teacher, 19(1) , 13-18
Ragan, L.C.&Terheggen, S.L. (2003). Effective workload management strategies for the online environment . Retrieved July 6, 2006, from Penn State World Campus Web site: (External Link)
Quality can be a difficult construct to define in the online classroom. What does quality look like to you online course? What might be the characteristics we can measure? How do you know when you see it? If you wish, post your response to the discussion board for this page.
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