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the forums there was too much fat. students would get on there
and basically just summarize an entire reading. i felt a lot of
times like asking people if they had any thoughts on the matter or if
the were just gonna go over what i already read. to many students
logging in and just trying to get points rather than actually
contribute to the disscussion. |
i
hated that material was due at 9 pm. trying to juggle homework while
working and going to school 5 days a week is a pain. sometimes you only
have time available in the evenings, especially on like
wednesdays. Thanks to this feedback, I now have midnight deadlines for all assignments 11:55pm
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| more of a structured format. i'm more used to powerpoint lectures. |
| nothing i can really think of. |
| i feel there is noting that needs to be changed in this class its all right and perfect. |
i found that this course took up numerous hours of the week and it was
very stressful. i understand the need for spending the hours but it was
a lot of information to try and retain for the tests. i feel the
grammar was graded a little harder on the assignments than it should
have been being as this was a history class.
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| it would have helped if the final exam study list had been specific to exam questions. i dont want to study the whole textbook for the final. |
forums were not always the most informative and created a very long and
unorganized way of learning. i felt that most of the information posted
was simply regurgitated from the videos or texts. perhaps by limiting
the questions or topics for the forums, students would be able to bring
more personal interpretations to the table. overall, it really just
felt like participants in my group were throwing information up and not
actually conversing or discussing ideas. i didn\'t feel that these
forums were worth the time i invested, considering the overall outcome.
i did really enjoy the \'assignments\'. this allowed an
opportunity to make a connection to the information on a more personal
level, which will stick with me much longer than plain dates, facts and
themes. putting a human face on some of the larger issues throughout
the war was not only interesting but drew me further into learning.
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| this
is a hard course actually. my only thought is the forums where really
not a lot of help, they were more opinion based which our grading plays
a big part in. i did not like that such a big percentage of our grade
was based on that. |
i really didn\'t like that we were given information that we assumed
was correct (because this is a college course, where we\'re supposed to
learn things presented to us) and then was told that it was wrong based
on presentational bias. while being able to differentiate bias and
opinion between fact is an important skill in life, i do not believe
that a college course where we are required to know specific facts
about the vietnam war was an appropriate place to try to teach that
lesson. if we\'re supposed to learn correct facts, why teach us biased
information, tell us it\'s wrong, reteach, and then test us on the
"correct" information? it makes it needlessly confusing.
but
on the other hand, i understand that there aren\'t a lot of sources of
information on the vietnam war that isn\'t biased. in that case, those
materials should not be used at all, but if they have to be, then tell
us up front that the material is biased and here is a set of
information that is relevant and correct instead of pulling out the rug
from underneath us.
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put
up the next week's homework assignments even earlier. also, i would
make sure the student knows it is important to get the assignment for
(as an example) week 5 done during week 4. it's almost like the
assignments for that week, especially reading, needed to be done before
that week even started. |
i
would say being a little more lenient in the grading of the private
assignments. a lot of work went into them between reading the appy book
and then trying to tie various stories together to create a theme and
then write on it. they were worthwhile but difficult assignments.
also,
the midterm was extremely hard. some questions made it difficult to
understand what was being asked. i completed all reading and viewing
assignments and filled out and spent a lot of time studying the study
guide and yet found that i did not feel i knew the answers to many
questions on the exam.
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| i
think the time for turning in assignments should be different, usually
people taking online classes have other obligations during the week,
and day time that is why they cant make it to campus. most of my other
classes were due on a sunday night or monday night which made it really
nice to have the entire weekend to dedicate to studies. |
| videos more accesible |
| get involved in the discussions more yourself, instead of just coming in when we have something wrong. |
listing
the assignments and their deadlines in a more clear manner.. i found it
a little more difficult to keep track of the deadlines in this course
because of the separate deadline
link. maybe a course calendar would be a good idea? or giving the
deadlines on each assignment and showing them when you click on the
"assignments" link. I have removed a separate page of deadlines. Deadlines are clearly listed in each Moodle weekly "block".
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i
think the only thing which i would suggest would be that the teacher
could make the dvds more important to the class and make sure it is
clear what you supposed to learn from them. i felt that i was never
driven to watch them because they weren\'t very connected and repeated
all the info we had been learning already in class.
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| first
of all, the instructor was great. i was only troubled with the
discussions. it seems to me that online courses are harder since
there is no human interaction to bring about thoughts or ideas.
it seemed a bit slow for discussions and made me very uninterested in
the subject; however, i am probably just not cut out for online courses. |
| honestly,
i loved the class. i thought it was absolutely fascinating and i can't
think of how it can be improved. it was challenging, informative and i
can't wait to take more classes like it. |
i
would suggest that maybe you assign a few different students to write
about a few different things or more opinion questions in the forums
because often times when we all were writing about the same thing it
was hard to make any good responses to people because we were all
saying basically the same thing. also, at the beginning of the term it
wasn't clear to me that our assignments were supposed to be formal
papers. i was under the impression that it was just answering the
questions, i got heavily marked down for that because i didn't
understand the assignment. also, i feel some of you expectations were a
bit high, this is an online course and you do lose some of the
expectations of the work, i felt that the work load that was so
continuous was a bit uncharacteristic for online classes. usually with
my other online classes the due date for anything is at the end of the
week so you can work on it whenever, but in this class there were often
due dates in the middle of the week and pressure to do something in the
class every day. Course
workload was uncharacteristic of online classes? I believe
students mistakenly believe that online classes are easier than
traditional classes. Unfortunately, some instructors exacerbate
this problem by lowering expectations and workload. I do not.
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