Monday, August 8, 2011
Finals Week Question 2
My favorite thing about this class was being able to participate in it from the comfort of my own home. I didn’t feel like I was missing out on anything by not having a classroom setting. One thing I didn’t like about the class was the group work. A big plus for taking an online course is that you can work whenever is convenient for you. But with the group work, we were nailed down to specific times. I found it difficult to coordinate with so many people’s schedules, and was frustrated at the lack of responses from my group members. The other thing I didn’t like about the course was the waiting 12 hours between posts. I understand it is necessary to make posts available for people to comment on, but it would be nice if the students could post all of the blogs at once, and perhaps comment on posts from the week before.
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I agree about the group part. As everyone is busy with their own schedules during summer, which college students are going to fill up with everything except time to work together and talk, it was difficult to coordinate ties to talk as a group. But I also agree with you that being able to do all these in the comfort of your home made it much more relaxing, and were not always pressured in having to do the work in the big classroom environment like with other classes during the semester. I would disagree about the 12 hour rule, though I do agree it would be easier to do them all at once. I think our teacher wanted us to spend more time on each post, which is why maybe she made the 12 hour rule.
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