Teaching with Webct vista

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Teaching with Webct vista

• Adventures in Learning

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Adventures in Learning

• Double your pleasure, double your fun,
  
• with
  
• Double-Loop Learning
  
• on WebCT Vista
• Tagg, Jon. Double-Loop Learning in Higher
  Education. (2007) Change, 36-41.

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Adventures in Learning

• Governing values of Web CT Vista leading to
  
• Positive Student Learning
• Hands-on Student Involvement
• Student autonomy within WebCT
• Internationalization of learning
  
• User-friendly feedback and
  assessment
• Fun, not fear discussion, not
  disaster

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Adventures in Learning

• WebCT Tools used by students
• Syllabus/ Assignments
• Mailbox, Announcements, Office Hours
• Gradebook
• Learning Modules
• Web Site for Text Resources

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Adventures in Learning

• The following statistics were derived from an
  Optional Exit Survey from WebCT Vista, after the
  Final Exam.
• Survey was worth 5 extra points.
• 11 out ot 18 students, 61, responded.

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First-time users of Web Vista in a Spanish Class
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Degree that Web Vista Home Page was helpful
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Ratings of Learning Module Sites
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Features of Web Vista Home Page most frequently
used
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Adventures in Learning

• Student Evaluations Spring 2008 say
• Structure/ organization helped me learn
• Strongly Agree 42.9 Agree 57.1
  
• Feedback about progress
• Strongly Agree 85.7 Agree 14.3

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Adventures in Learning

• Survey says
• Overall, how would you rate your learning
• experience?
• Excellent 14.3 VG 71.4
• Tests and Papers returned promptly
• Strongly Agree 100

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Adventures in Learning

• Lets go to WebCT Vista!