Digi-History

As I promised in our meeting I asked our colleague in Padua, dr. Cristina Zaggia to send me the chapter of her doctoral dissertation that has dealt with the ehlee course.
After explaining and contextualising the course she points out 5 elements that she evaluates as good practices that could be extended to other e-learning experiences and even outside the online context:

1. the work of course planning: net-working on the online platform among teachers from different traditions has helped to reflect on learning oucomes and teaching methods more in depth that in any other traditional context where there is little team work in working on teaching and learning.

2. the explicit reflection and publication of learning outcomes and expected competences has helped students in finalising their time and work towards the expected results. This has helped students to self evaluate their progression and better understand why eventually they have had success or partially/completely failed to achieve some goals. This explicit focus has however the disadvenatge that students have not understood or given the right importance to unforeseen results. there are some suggestions on this point.

3. Students have appreciated the strong coherence of the course and have appreciated the materials the learning and assessment methods as far as they where finalised to the goals. Good point is the continous assessment. Critical point the checking of workload not overall but situating it in the timeframe of the course.

4. Good point thet the course had two assessment methods that complemented each other

5. Good point is the internal7estrenal evaluation of the course and the revision and changes in the course planning and materials between first and second edition.

This is a summary of the feed-back, what do you think we could incorporate in our guidelines?

best carla