{"id":9196,"date":"2016-01-21T15:19:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2016-01-21T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:19:52","slug":"midcourse-reviews-for-online-and-hybrid-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/midcourse-reviews-for-online-and-hybrid-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Midcourse Reviews for Online and Hybrid Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n

\"feedback\"<\/p>\n

As many of you already know, midcourse reviews are an optional, formative assessment that you can request in order to help you tweak your courses while there is still time to make a difference. CAT+FD offers this service to all of our online instructors during the same period as our face to face ones. In fact, the procedure is quite similar to the face to face midcourse review. We create a questionnaire on Survey Monkey for each instructor who requests the online midcourse review using the following three questions:<\/p>\n

1. What is working in the online course (what is helping you to learn)?<\/p>\n

2. What is not working(what is keeping you from learning)?<\/p>\n

3. What are your suggestions for improvement?<\/p>\n

We then send to the instructors the unique link for his or her students, along with a message from CAT+FD explaining what the review is, why the instructor is requesting it and of course, the fact that the survey is completely anonymous.<\/p>\n

We keep the survey open for a few days and once it\u2019s closed, we create the midcourse review report which summarizes the student feedback and then delete the survey. We will meet with the online instructor either face to face or via videoconference to discuss the report. Like the face to face midcourse reviews, CAT+FD does not keep copies of the reports.<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re teaching online this spring, don\u2019t worry! We\u2019ll be sending out notices shortly. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions about midcourse reviews for online classes--knichola@xula.edu. You may also check out this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education: http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/As-Emphasis-on-Student\/129566\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Karen Nichols As many of you already know, midcourse reviews are an optional, formative assessment that you can request in order to help you tweak your courses while there is still time to make a difference. 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