Common Feedback for Lesson 2 Discussion

(Same message posted to the course twitter announcement area)

(Same message posted to the discussion area)

You should receive your Lesson 2 discussion grade and feedback in E-mail.  I hope you find them useful.  Here are more of my reflections to share with you to help you to enhance your learning experiences.

 

What we did right:

·         KEY Discussion Questions: Most of us responded to the key discussions very thorough and comprehensive.

·         Cite Relevant Literature: Great to see many of you cite research-based literature to support your arguments to the key discussion questions.  Continue your outstanding logical reasoning participations.

·         Two Posting Periods: Some of us followed two posting periods to share our thoughts and responded to both KEY questions within the 1 posting period. Please continue following this posting method for all our lesson discussions, unless specified.

o   1^st posting period: Focus on responding to key discussion questions thoroughly.

o   2^nd posting period: Engage in learner-learner interaction by reading/responding to others' postings.

 

 

Here are few strategies to help you to participate in our lesson discussions:

·         Reply: When we reply to a specific person's posting, we can greet with "Chih & Gayle, Your questions are very interesting….." In this way, we know who is talking to whom. We do not need a greeting if we respond to the discussion questions and/or to the entire class.

·         Post early: Post your thoughts early so your good ideas won't be taken, particularly responding to the original discussion question in 1^st posting period.

To improve:

·         Respond to others: It is very common our classmates, the moderators, and I respond to your postings and raise the questions based on your postings.  As courtesy, don't forget to respond these postings.

·         Questions for me: If you have any questions for the instructor, avoid posting them in the discussion board because I may not get back to you in a timely fashion.  We have a fairly large class and active and interactive discussion activities.

·         Additional responses: is it appropriate to respond to the questions not raised to my posting?  Yes, The questions may not direct to your postings.  If you have any reflection, please do share it with us.  It is a community-based learning.  Any additional reflections are always welcome.

·         How do I know who respond to my postings?

o   Two ways:

§  Use "Search" Function to search your name if others respond to your postings with name greeting. View the image.

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§  "Collapse All" the discussion thread to view it as a tree/nested interface. View the image.

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In our lesson discussion feedback, we provide both individual qualitative and quantitative feedback to help you to support your learning.  The quantitative feedback is based on your individualized personal learning analytic data.  The purpose is to help you to understand your lesson discussion performance throughout the class by comparing yourself, to classmates, the whole class, and previous classes.  Learning Analytics (LA) is an emerging instructional technology to support us to build our PLEs. I hope you will find them useful to your learning.  Extracting these individualized data isn't easy in BBLearn system. I will do my best to provide you with individualized data to help you to organize your PLE.  Quantity doesn't represent our learning performance.  So we have qualitative feedback to help us to improve our lesson discussion performance.

 

In addition, I use Social Network Analysis (SNA) to review each individual's interactivity (In-Degree, Out-Degree, Liaison, Transmitter, Prominent, and Prestigious Roles) to help you to understand how active, interactive you are, and what role you play in Lesson 2 discussions. We will cover SNA in ETC655.  It is a great way to understand the effectiveness of online community, network, and interactivity etc.

 

I think we have many quality postings although our average postings were below the historical average. We do focus on the quality of the discussion not just quantity.  Without a certain level of quantity, the quality could be limited. I hope we will have both positive quality and quantity discussions in upcoming discussions.