כנס מיטל 2010 Library and Information Science Students' Feedback in an Online Course ד " ר...

כנס מיטל 2010

Library and Information Science Students' Feedback in an Online Course

,ד"ר נועה אהרוניאוניברסיטת בר אילן


The research questions are: 1. What are the main themes

revealed as LIS students express their experience in online courses?

2. Is there a difference between the themes of LIS university students and those of LIS college students as revealed in their feedback?


Distance learning Distance education E-learning Blended Learning


Interactions in asynchronous online discussion boards


Students' satisfaction in online courses


Collaborative learning


MethodResearch design:A statistical descriptive

analysis A content analysis


Procedure


Findings: 65 feedbacks 318 units of analysis 160 feedback units (50.31%)

were written by LIS college students

158 (49.68%) by LIS university students


Five Major Categories of Feedbacks

Category University College Subtotal Percentage

Personal

Impression 33 61 94 29.55


Enjoyment Interest Positive experience Negative experience


An example for the personal impression category:

"As a first course I took in online learning, I must admit that I really enjoyed it". "Dear Dr. X: Continue succeeding in such courses. It was a great experience for me"



Reflection 52 36 88 27.67


Meta-Analysis Process of learning


An example for the reflection

category: "The fact that we were asked to hand

in the answers and responses to other students' assignments to the forum sharpened our way of thinking and contributed much to the discussions"



Collaboration36205617.61


Active discussion The ability to be exposed to different

perspectives Interest


An example for the collaboration category:

"I had the possibility to respond online, I learnt to 'listen' to my peers and had the feeing that someone really read what I wrote and responded accordingly"



Course Materials

20284815.09


Course material's level of interest Difficulties Structure


An example for the course material category:

"The materials were up to date and included recent theories and studies"



Course

Management 17153210.06


Positive feedback Negative criticism


An example for the course management category:

"I enjoyed the way the instructor managed the course: She summarized the discussions, responded to each student, and answered the questions quickly"


The comparison between LIS university students and LIS college students shows that LIS university students concentrate on enjoyment, interest and positive experience, while LIS college students prefer to discuss both their positive and negative experience


The second category --

reflection -- turns out to be larger within LIS university students than within LIS college students (59.09% versus 40.90%)


The next category, collaboration, seems to be larger within LIS university students (64.28%) than within LIS college students (35.71%)


Conclusions: LIS university students are

more satisfied with their online learning experience

LIS university students discuss and express more reflective, analytic meta-cognitive aspects of the learning process than their college counterparts


It is interesting to note that LIS student feedback in both environments did not contain only courtesy, social or good manners remarks, but included content based comments that reflected deep thoughts, analysis and meaning of the learning process


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