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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Oh I don't have a problem with BBs, I'll happily mix it with the best. I did notice it with other students though. I've been including online components in my courses, as well as helping to design online courses since the early 2000s and I'm well familiar with them in a variety of forms. From my experience, SU was well down towards the bottom of the pile when it came to effective teaching methods and encouraging involvement. Not to mention outdated information. I think we spent 4 weeks discussing film photography using hyped films. The kodak film they were discussing hadn't been commercially produced by kodak for something like 4 years by then and you couldn't get it for love nor money.
I sent a number of emails to lectures and course coordinators. Not a reply. I then sent a letter to the faculty head, explaining my experience in the education and online training industry. The email was, I believed balanced with positives and areas for improvement. Not a reply from anyone.Funnily enough though they are still quite happy to send me advertising asking if i want to complete the course.
Nah, it'll be a cold day in hell before I head back there or recommend an online course there.
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Sounds like they weren't interested in really engaging the students or listening to them. Institutions like that only make things hard for people wanting to do something for themselves. Best to avoid places like that. When you look at it, nearly all unis that offer online courses could do with a bit of help in the presentation of the courses and the way they allow for student-student and student-instructor interaction. That's where they need more people like yourself instructing them on how to approach teaching people online. What each uni should have is a unit that deals solely with online instruction and that liaises with the departments and faculties to tailor their online degrees to suit what each department/faculty has to teach their students. The problem with a lot of lecturers and such is they don't have enough background in education to really know how to deliver well structured courses for online instruction (or even on campus courses for that matter, in some cases).
What was the film....good ol' Tech Pan?? Remember when they used to advertise hypering kits in Astronomy Magazine??
