formative evaluation of ejump courses
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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
63% 9% 7%
5% 14%
2% Affilia.ons
University or other higher educa&on ins&tu&on
Secondary school
Voca&onal school
Academic network organisa&on
Other
Business enterprise
teacher 55%
administrator 7%
researcher 11%
educa&onal technologist
13%
IT‐specialist 5% other
9%
Occupa&ons
Age and gender
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5
10
15
20
25
30
15‐25 26‐40 41‐60
Female 64%
Male 36%
Academic field
pedagogy, educa&onal science 32%
mathema&cs and natural sciences 12%
social sciences 4%
IT, computer science 31%
medicine, health sciences
4%
business administra&on, economics
5%
humani&es 7%
other 5%
Online teaching experience less than 1 year
6%
1‐4 years 43% 5‐10 years
43%
more than10 8%
Frequency of using VLE
Daily 49%
Weekly 33%
Couple of &mes during semester
11% Monthly 7%
20 respondents are teaching online courses on regular basis, 17 occasionally
Experience with Web 2.0 tools
Yes, quite oben 16%
Yes, occasionally 40%
No, although I new these tools can be used for
teaching 27%
No, I did not know about these tools before taking the eJump course 15%
Other 2%
Why did they par&cipate?
54%
18%
15%
7%
4% 2% I am interested in using eLearning 2.0 in my job
I wanted to experience myself eLearning 2.0 in the role of learner
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? 28
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25
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5
10
15
20
25
30
New Technologies in eLearning
New Assessment Methods of eLearning
eLearning design & administra&on
Ac&on Research Planning
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?
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13
1 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
New Technologies in eLearning
Ac&on Research Planning
New assessment Methods of eLearning
elearning administra&on
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
It was aesthe&cally pleasant
It was easy to navigate
I never got lost in it
It was logically structured
It was user‐friendly
The different parts of it were well integrated
It was suitable for the learning tasks we had to carry out
In general, I was sa&sfied with the environment
It suited well to the course contents and goals
I would recommend to keep the environment unchanged in case you are going to teach this
course again
Online learning environment
Strongly agree Agree Neither disagree nor agree Disagree Strongly disagree
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
We were provided a sufficient amount of learning resources
The texts were too lengthy
I expected more original resources from the authors of this course
The learning resources were wrijen in clear style, were easy to read
All of the resources were relevant to course goals and assignments
I did not discover any mistakes or disputable issues in our learning resources
The learning resources were valuable and relevant to me
There was sufficient amount of addi&onal reading for those who wanted learn deeper
Learning resources
Strongly agree Agree Neither disagree nor agree Disagree Strongly disagree
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Our workload was too high, there were too many assignments
Assignments were presented in clear and comprehensive manner
I would not skip any of the assignments, all were useful
All assignments were well matching the goals and content of this course
Assignments were highly relevant to my job context
Assignments were authen&c, based on real‐life situa&ons
I would have expected more individual assignments
I would have expected more collabora&ve assignments
I would have expected more flexibility and self‐direc&on opportuni&es in defining the
scope of the assignments
Course assignments
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
I received sufficient feedback from the facilitator
All my contribu&ons were assessed by the facilitator
Facilitator's feedback was always &mely
I would have expected more self‐assessment ac&vi&es
I would have expected more peer‐assessment ac&vi&es
Assessment was matching well the course goals
Assessment and feedback was helpful, I learned a lot from it
Assessment‐related tasks added too much workload to me
I felt the facilitator's presence on this course, as (s)he was responding quickly when needed
Assessment and feedback
Strongly agree Agree Neither disagree nor agree Disagree Strongly disagree
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Course syllabus and guidelines were clear and comprehensive
The mix of tradi&onal and new teaching methods was well balanced
The course introduced innova&ve pedagogical approach
The pace of the course was well balanced
There was sufficient flexibility in course design for ensuring the autonomy of learners
Most of the course par&cipants were truly engaged in learning
This course need to be pedagogically re‐designed if you really want to "teach the way you preach"
I learned what is Learning 2.0 from the pedagogical perspec&ve
The course was smoothly administered, I was always aware what I should do next
Pedagogical design and implementa.on
Strongly agree Agree Neither disagree nor agree Disagree Strongly disagree
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)
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