Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:233] RE: teacher online feedback
From: Marshal Anderson (marshal@marshal.co.uk)
Date: Thu 31 Aug 2000 - 13:18:44 MEST
From: "Marshal Anderson" <marshal@marshal.co.uk> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:233] RE: teacher online feedback Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:18:44 +0100
Brent wrote:
As online
> educator, one of
> the most demanding aspects of teaching online is offering concrete and
> thoughtful comments to student work. Yet, as a graduate
> student who took
> online classes, it was frustrating and sometimes domoralizing
> to receive
> meager teacher comments on major term papers.
>
I wonder if on-line tutors know this and if we make it clear. I guessing
that your teachers gave as much feedback on your papers as they would for
any F2F student - the question is what's missing? I'm currently struggling
with this myself on a masters dissertation; somehow the on-line teacher
needs to get some aspect of the F2F communication they might have with
students on campus, a simple smattering of 'good point' or 'needs
development' and a one line comment at the end of the work is fine when
given in conjunction with tutorials or a simple chance meeting in the coffee
bar. There seems to be a need to set up an on-line dialogue between teacher
and student in which the needs and concerns of the student come across and I
feel that on-line teachers need to take account of the fact that the
comments provided in marking often form the only feedback a student gets.
Marshal Anderson
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