Both qualitative and quantitative information is imporant to evaulate the online course. In addition, multiple stakeholders should provide input. Examples include students, peers, and program mentors.
I learned that closing the loop need multiple tools, from multiple stakeholders. There are severals ways to evaluate the course and they are through course grades, syllabus scan, assignments and exams, question tools, concept maps, or even peer evaluation/observation.
I learned that peer review and multiple evaluations are important for students' learning.
Multiple sources, multiple evaluations provides better feedback.
This section really helped me to understand how to continuously improve my course through multiple sources. I am always open to constructive criticism, however, perhaps i need to seek it more in order to truly benifit my stake holders.
Course grades provide feedback to the student but also data for the instructor to infer learning effectiveness.
Use quantitative and qualitative data to complement each other. Quantitative data usually gives you the what; qualitative data usually answers the why or the how. Quantitative data also typically contains numerical data, whereas qualitative data typically includes interviews, written comments, etc.
Multiple evaluations are always better than just one.
Multiple evaluations and feedback are tools to use for constant course improvement. Usee all tolls at your disposal and continue to expand the resources that you have to draw from.
Reflecting on the reading it seems to me super vital and important to share with colleagues what worked and what did not work in order to identify where we should improve or what we should implement
New to get adequate feedback. This helps to make decisions to be able to close the loop on online courses.
Student must be evaluated. I learned that a student must be evaluated in multiple ways, by written testging and didactic.
I particularly enjoy receiving feedback from my students and my peers, because both sources are looking at/for something different in their course experience. Peers push me to do/be better, whereas students not only help me, but the course, thrive for future students.
I was always confused about the word "stakeholders" in an academic institution. But this helpled clear that confusion up and actually influences how I'll be assessing and evaluating my course.
The most important thing I have learned in this module were the different methods for evaluating and reviewing the effectiveness of the course. I will apply the methods of the syllabus scan and portfolio to evaluate upcoming courses.
After a course, I realized that I need to do a better job to reflect on what went well and what may require additional improvement. I review the student evaluations but apart from thinking about how the term went in my head, I don't formalize my ideas to be more specific about what I can change or update for the next term.
I see the value in different data points. We look for student feedback but likely overlook some of the other forms of feedback after initial course revisions are done.
Multiple evaluations help with improving the curriculum and ensures content is relevant to the course. Factors changing the curriculum can be changes in knowledge and technology, or professional and industry innovations.
It is important as curriculum is reviewed that educators, as professionals, reflect upon their knowledge or lack thereof. Also, reviewing and learning technology is a must in an online environment.
Having the feedback from multiple evaluations is so important to have. This will assure the students are receiving the best experience.
Spot-checking student learning is a way to continually evaluate the progress of students.
Students, the institution, and the teaching and professional community comprise the major stakeholders who have interest in helping teachers close the loop in their online courses. Data and feedback are needed from each of those three groups.
It is also important to remember that students are consumers in the course and they can be valuable sources of feedback. Since online students don't have the opportunity to have casual conversation it is important that teachers plan for communication experienes with students and between students.
