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Reciprocal Feedback in the Online Classroom
As the previous article illustrates, we have often discussed in this journal the need for effective feedback and the benefits that accrue when successful and valuable communication occurs between the student and the professor. Indeed, this is an important skill in the traditional classroom, but it is even more important in an online class where the professor and the student have no face-to-face contact and all communication which does occur is non-verbal.
Like most things in effective instructional design, the SME and course designers must purpose that they are going to create effective feedback vehicles within the course. We have highlighted articles in the past Providing Effective Feedback and Creating Ongoing Feedback. Here is one more article along those lines that takes the process a step further. Rob Kelly starts with the assumption that providing feedback might be an unfamiliar process to students, which means they are not going to be communicating effectively in the first place.
Read more about some good ideas to "provide information and suggestions that can improve the learning for current and future students."
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