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Not being afraid to be evaluated by the students frequently will be beneficial to me and my students. Updating course content.
Formative and Summative course revisions are essential to use in order to make on line courses better and more benificial for the students.
Take your course evaluations serious and use them to better yourslef as an educator.
It is important to make sure you ask for feedback and review the feedback that you receive in order to decide if the feedback will help your online course and teaching skills. After receiving feedback, you need to decide if you are going to use that feedback to make revisions or not. Not all feedback is going to be used.
There are two types of course revisions, formative and summative revisions. Formative revisions should be completed quickly, they provide minimal changes. Summative revisions may provide detailed information that needs to be analyzed and assessed for appropriate revision. These revisions usually take 1 to 2 weeks.
I plan to utilize the Stop, Start, Continue evaluation in my courses. I agree that making small changes throughout the course is better than waiting until the end.
Most individuals think that summative course evaluations basically provide feedback as to whether instructors:
I have kept all of my teaching material for 20+ years. I have used a great deal of that material to enhance the online experience. I believe the Formative evaluations benefit the students a great deal. I do incorporate a fair amount of dynamic content in my courses.
Nothing worse than not being willing to change. You have to be able to modify instruction, assignments, feedback and so on to fit the current environment.
Continually develop your online course during the term. Do a summative evaluation at the end. Keep traack of your changes. Ask for imput from several sources.
Online courses must be evaluated and reevaluated on a constant basis to maintain up to date content and give the students the best education possible.
Teachers need to be open to reflecting, altering, and updating content to keep things interesting for the students. Gather data about your assignments to determine effectivness.
Making a plan and gathering data by using the ADDIE Model will be important in evaluating the outcomes of the course.
As you develop your course it is important to create a history of all your revisions to which you can fall back on if necessary.
I have learned thet it is important to keep track of course updates and revisions (Develop a content repository for this management). Also, do not change requirements part way through the course.