Hello e-mates,
I passed
through painful but productive process of my project, and on the basis of that
I am now becoming convinced that the more you make online courses interactive,
collaborative and student cantered, the more you get your students motivated,
inspired, responsive and responsible.
When I read
all other projects I realized the existence of my scantiest knowledge in Academia.
It was wonderful voyage to sail through
endless ocean of innovations spread throughout various projects. I have to achieve
so many milestones before I sleep.
It was amazing to work with Bernard as my project peer
reviewer. Thanks, Bernard!
I tried to explore most of the innovative tools or
resources for enhancing learning. Ultimately, I decided to try my hand on
surveys. I used Google Docs to create a survey for an online course.
There is strong
rationale behind it. As you all know, being an online teacher, I teach a group
of online students an English language learning course. At the end of the
course, it is essential to retrospect and introspect whatever we learnt or
taught. Apart from providing us an utter sense of fulfillment the surveys offer
an opportunity to reflect upon what to do and what not to do in the next
course. Student’s feedback is inevitable to get the right sense for chartering
out future academic strategies or enterprises. Therefore, I decided to make a
survey.
The students
also might have the sense of contributing their experiences or perceptions
regarding the course through surveys. I have noticed on the basis of past
experiences that certain students are actually serious and sincere in providing
their feedbacks in the form of filling out surveys. Therefore, I always
appreciate surveys, and accommodate the suggestions offered through surveys. An
academician’s life should be an open book sharing all academic developments and
thoughts with the organic whole of academic fraternity.
At the end of
the course, it is essential to retrospect and introspect whatever we learnt or
taught. Student’s feedback is inevitable to get the right sense for chartering
out future academic strategies or enterprises. I always appreciate surveys, and
accommodate the suggestions offered through surveys.
Surveys enhance
learner’s autonomy. They are free to share their learning achievements in built
witnesses of drawbacks in a course, and also their past and future
expectations.
Cheers,
Jit
Hi Jit: Google surveys are quite powerful and useful. I've even had one past Webskills participant create a series of automated quizzes using this tool, and while not perfect, it worked overall very well, and was free. We had seen other tools that could do what he was trying to do, but they cost a fair amount of money. I always think we need to be thinking of ways of re-purposing tools, so we use them in ways that conform to our needs. ~Robert
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