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Content tagged: course evaluations

Course and Instructor Evaluations: Misconceptions and Realities

Article: Friday, January 22nd, 2010

If evaluation sounds good in theory but feels bad in practice, it may be that you or others are operating under some common misconceptions. Misconception: Outcomes are the only things worth ... Read full story »

Two Ways to Make Student Feedback More Valuable

Article: Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Unless they have a real problem with how the course was run, most students fill out end-of-course evaluations so quickly there's often very little valuable information in them. Here are ... Read full story »

Strategies for Preventing and Correcting Poor Faculty Evaluations

Article: Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Online instructors receive poor evaluations for any number of reasons, including lack of experience, inadequate training, and poor communication skills. Other times, the poor reviews are more reflective of the ... Read full story »

Building Student Engagement in Online Courses

Article: Monday, April 6th, 2009

Despite all the high-tech communication technologies available to online instructors today — discussion boards, email, IM, wikis, podcasts, blogs, vlogs, etc. — every once in awhile Dr. B. Jean Mandernach ... Read full story »

How to Make Course Evaluations More Valuable

Article: Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

The major benefit any conscientious professor seeks in course evaluations is in gaining useful student feedback. Yet most rating instruments generate vague, unjustified student comments. Quantitative scales provide ambiguous statistics ... Read full story »

Online Teaching Tips to Ensure a Productive New Year

Article: Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Well, it’s a new year, and with it comes new hopes, new dreams, new possibilities…and, for online teachers, new courses and/or continuation of existing courses. While we can certainly do ... Read full story »

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