Forma&ve evalua&on of eJump courses Mart Laanpere Tallinn University
Forma&ve evalua&on • Why: to collect feedback that could help us to update and enhance the courses and make them more suitable to the target group • How: online ques&onnaire with LimeSurvey (limesurvey.org); survey consisted of 6 blocks: background, online learning environment, learning resources, assignments, assessment and feedback, pedagogical design • Who: was sent to 129 par&cipants, 56 responded (43% response rate) • When: in March
Instrument: ques&onnaire • Background informa&on: affilia&on, occupa&on, age, gender, academic field, e‐learning experience and aUtude, Web 2.0 experience, mo&vators • 5 sec&ons: online learning environment, learning resources, course assignments, assessment and feedback, pedagogical design and implementa&on • 8‐10 statements in each sec&on, 5‐point Likert scale responses (Strongly agree, agree…)
Sample Affilia.ons 2% 5%
14%
7% 9%
63%
University or other higher educa&on ins&tu&on Secondary school Voca&onal school Academic network organisa&on Other Business enterprise
Occupa&ons IT‐specialist 5% educa&onal technologist 13% researcher 11%
administrator 7%
other 9%
teacher 55%
Age and gender 30
Male 36%
25 20
Female 64%
15 10 5 0 15‐25
26‐40
41‐60
Academic field
business humani&es administra&on, 7% economics medicine, 5% health sciences 4% IT, computer science 31%
other 5%
pedagogy, educa&onal science 32% mathema&cs and natural sciences 12%
social sciences 4%
Online teaching experience more than10 8%
5‐10 years 43%
less than 1 year 6%
1‐4 years 43%
Frequency of using VLE Couple of &mes during semester 11%
Monthly 7% Daily 49%
Weekly 33%
20 respondents are teaching online courses on regular basis, 17 occasionally
Experience with Web 2.0 tools No, I did not know about these tools before taking the eJump course No, although I 15% new these tools can be used for teaching 27%
Other 2% Yes, quite oben 16%
Yes, occasionally 40%
Why did they par&cipate? I am interested in using eLearning 2.0 in my job
4% 2% 7%
I wanted to experience myself eLearning 2.0 in the role of learner
15% 54% 18%
I wanted to experience the studying in interna&onal group Other I was just curious My boss suggested I should take this course
Which eJump course they took? 30
28 25
25 20
19
15 10 5 1 0 New Technologies New Assessment eLearning design & Ac&on Research in eLearning Methods of administra&on Planning eLearning
AUtude towards e‐learning before taking eJump course(s) • • • • • • •
Extremely posi&ve (8) I was curious, interested (5) Posi&ve, pragma&c (15) Trying to keep my mind open (2) It is part of my everyday work (3) I did not know anything about it (3) Neutral (1)
Which course they evaluated? 35 30
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10 5
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0 New Technologies in eLearning
Ac&on Research Planning
New assessment Methods of eLearning
elearning administra&on
Online learning environment I would recommend to keep the environment unchanged in case you are going to teach this course again It suited well to the course contents and goals In general, I was sa&sfied with the environment It was suitable for the learning tasks we had to carry out The different parts of it were well integrated It was user‐friendly It was logically structured I never got lost in it It was easy to navigate It was aesthe&cally pleasant 0%
Strongly agree
Agree
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Learning resources There was sufficient amount of addi&onal reading for those who wanted learn deeper The learning resources were valuable and relevant to me I did not discover any mistakes or disputable issues in our learning resources All of the resources were relevant to course goals and assignments The learning resources were wrijen in clear style, were easy to read I expected more original resources from the authors of this course The texts were too lengthy We were provided a sufficient amount of learning resources 0%
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100%
Course assignments I would have expected more flexibility and self‐direc&on opportuni&es in defining the scope of the assignments I would have expected more collabora&ve assignments I would have expected more individual assignments Assignments were authen&c, based on real‐ life situa&ons Assignments were highly relevant to my job context All assignments were well matching the goals and content of this course I would not skip any of the assignments, all were useful Assignments were presented in clear and comprehensive manner Our workload was too high, there were too many assignments 0%
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Assessment and feedback I felt the facilitator's presence on this course, as (s)he was responding quickly when needed Assessment‐related tasks added too much workload to me Assessment and feedback was helpful, I learned a lot from it Assessment was matching well the course goals I would have expected more peer‐assessment ac&vi&es I would have expected more self‐assessment ac&vi&es Facilitator's feedback was always &mely All my contribu&ons were assessed by the facilitator I received sufficient feedback from the facilitator 0%
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Neither disagree nor agree
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100%
Pedagogical design and implementa.on The course was smoothly administered, I was always aware what I should do next I learned what is Learning 2.0 from the pedagogical perspec&ve This course need to be pedagogically re‐designed if you really want to "teach the way you preach" Most of the course par&cipants were truly engaged in learning There was sufficient flexibility in course design for ensuring the autonomy of learners The pace of the course was well balanced The course introduced innova&ve pedagogical approach The mix of tradi&onal and new teaching methods was well balanced Course syllabus and guidelines were clear and comprehensive 0%
Strongly agree
Agree
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100%
General remarks • Normal distribu&on of responses: people seemed to take eJump courses with different expecta&ons • Several responses praised Moodle as the best part of online learning environment • Learning resources received the best feedback • Inter‐course differences: NeTeL course received slightly more posi&ve responses • Helpful (cri&cal) free‐form responses
Conclusions • Strengths: – first‐hand experience on eLearning 2.0 (incl. chaos) – useful learning resources – innova&ve pedagogical design
• Weaknesses: – environment was confusing: easy to get lost, overlaps (Moodle & Elgg), scaffolding is needed – insufficient social presence, social infrastructure – integra&on between courses
G.Salmon: 5 stages of e‐modera&ng
Implica&ons to course re‐design • Restructure learning environment: geUng rid of Moodle? Immersive learning • Scaffolding efforts are needed • (Personal) learning environment as result of the course, not as an input? • Efforts to build and maintain social presence • Social infrastructure • Rela&ons between courses (overlaps)