If the students were given a pre-course assessment and the feedback was constructive the instructor could modify the class to accomodate those requests as long as the subject matter was covered sufficiently. This might make the learning more enjoyable or perhaps allow some to be very creative in their responses to assessments questions. I'm going to start teaching an online course very soon so this information may be quite helpful and I might even incorporate some of these tools in my class to make in a more learning environment. Thanks
Yes, it could be valuable.
I like to start new courses that way - what do you want to learn about in this course.
As long as the request is viable...I will try to cover it.
However, if I am teaching a Marketing course and a student asks that they want to learn about marketing to different cultures in different parts of the world, I might remind them that would be a 'International Marketing' course.
It is still the instructor's responsbility to cover the core theories of the topic of the course and thus, even though students may NOT want to learn about that, if the topic calls for it, the instructor must deliver it.
Jenny,
You would be also able to develop programmatic changes that involve more than one course and to you spending time remediating.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
Yes I think so. That would even help in remodifying any course material for future purposes. It also gives a strong foundation for that student to start the course knowing that his or her voice is being taken into consideration.
Juliet,
This is a restatement of the question.
Dr. Kelly Wilkinson
