course evaluation

Conceptualising different amounts of student engagement and its evaluation within a course

27.09.2019 Education, Research

Jutta Törnqvist, Lecturer in Online Media, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS This text discusses student-centered learning and experiments with a new approach to meet the needs of a broader type of students with varying educational and socio-economic backgrounds. As they must complete 30 credits of elective extension studies as part of their degree, students find themselves in situations where they identify and enrol for interesting subjects in other…

On Student Feedback

08.10.2013 Education, Student Life

On September the 27th I attended the quite interesting “Effective Course Evaluation Seminar” organized by a commercial actor within this field. The product they are offering is quite impressive, fully focused on managing the entire student feedback cycle in a centralized manner. I will not review the product here, but instead present some reflections on the discussions and cases presented at the seminar. First, some background information to this topic…