Posted 7:10 PM by George Siemens
When we started planning our online course in the Hospitality Department, we realized that we needed to get students to think about their perceptions of online learning. Online learning is a very new experience to most students, and our goal in raising student's awareness was to lead them to planning for overcoming weaknesses. To do this, we created an online self-test.

1. In order to be able to view the following file, you must install the a plugin file. To do this:
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* A smaller window will pop up asking if you want to download the
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* Once you see the movie playing, you are ready to return to this page
and take the assessment.
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2. Click on the following link and complete the self-assessment:
Online Self Assessment


This self-assessment does not allow for tracking of student results...we were more concerned about getting students to evaluate their own perceptions...we briefly explored using Hot Potatoes for this self-evaluation, but decided against it...it didn't allow for comments back to students at the end of the test, based on accrued results.

Hot Potatoes is free (with restrictions) software that creates simple interactive testing/exercises. When a student finishes a test or quiz, the results can be emailed to the instructor...in the future, it might be valuable to compile student comments/views of online learning before they begin a course...post-course evaluations could be done as well to see how views change...

Posted 7:24 AM by George Siemens
Great Site: Elearning Research Center. This site includes a good overview of elearning and many links to resources/organizations...