Feedback about your feeedback

1. Feedback:
Discussed
COM10003 LEARNING & COMMUNICATING ONLINE
TP2, 2014

2. Some key themes…
 The Wikis
Support from your eLAs
 Learning materials

3. The Wiki
Feedback about the Wikis
 Some loved collaborating in the Wiki
 Others were not as keen
Our response?
 The Wikis help us see the ‘who, when and what’
 The Wikis help us to support you and ensure that you are marked fairly
for your contribution
Future action?
 Keep investigating options for Collaboration that can be contained
with in Blackboard

4. Support from your eLAs
Feedback about your eLAs
 Support from your eLAs is really important to you.
Our response?
 We see student support as being of central importance
Future action?
 We will continue to emphasise the importance of supporting you

5. Learning materials
Feedback about the learning materials
 Some are comfortable with the mix of learning materials
 Others want more lectures and less reading
Our response?
 We do use a combination of delivery methods (written material,
pictures, YouTube videos just to name a few). There is minimal reading
in this unit and this is quite deliberate.
 We do need to include some academic articles. Here is why:
 Reading good quality articles will help you develop your academic voice.
 We need to prepare you for other units where more reading is required
Future action?
 We will continue to explore different ways of presenting material

6. Learning materials
Feedback about essay writing
 You also wanted to be shown how to write essays.
Our response?
 There are many practical guides available on the internet and in print that
can help. Ultimately being told how to write an essay will not help you.
Essay writing skills develop over time as a result of experiential learning (that
is – learning by doing) and by receiving and acting on feedback.
 We also need to keep the aim of the unit in mind “This unit aims to develop
students as informed, active, connected and contributing members of the
networked community.” Providing you with information is just one piece of
the puzzle.
Future action?
 We will continue to explore different ways of presenting material

7. Finally …
Thank-you 
 For sharing your ideas with us
 For your hard work to date