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Faculties and Departments => Faculty Sections => Faculty Forum => Topic started by: shibli on September 12, 2011, 03:07:58 PM

Title: Dear colleagues
Post by: shibli on September 12, 2011, 03:07:58 PM

Respected Sirs and Madams,

By now, we all are using Social Web. Our new semester has already started or is going to be started. Let us advise all our students to get registered in this learning feedback system compulsorily. The purpose of this interaction is to get the student to "think", i.e. to guess an answer and then have an opportunity to evaluate the "thinking". Every course requires thinking and learning. The objective is to get the students to discuss together, solve their understanding and learn. It is our responsibility to know whether and how much our students are learning. Social Web is an excellent tool to serve this purpose. In the beginning of the semester, we can download our course outlines in our respective course-wings. Students can be motivated to interact with us through this tool and some bonus marks may be given for that.

Let us try to explore this wonderful learning feedback system that we have started it as a pioneer. If you face any critical technical problem, please feel free to call Mr. Adnan Rabbi (01711004148) to help you out anytime every time.

Yours respectfully,

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: asma alam on September 25, 2011, 10:51:57 AM

Thank you Shibli Sir for your posting. I also have found this social web very much effective for both the students and the teacher.I encourage the students to be the member of the social web. In the last semester I rewarded 1 mark for their participation in the social web. This time I have made them bound to be the member of this social web and am encouraging their active participation in this web site. But it seems to me that it may take some time to get full benefit from it.

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: shibli on October 05, 2011, 10:47:08 AM

Respected Sirs and Madams

Teachers of most of the educationally advanced countries have started using personal website or learning feedback system to interact with the students. They upload their course outlines, handouts, materials, results, dates of exams, and all necessary information in their websites. Likewise, the benefits of using this feedback system are undoubtedly manifold.

    * Teachers can find out to what extent students have learned in classes
    * Students can share problems if they don't understand any topics or lessons
    * Students can support each other
    * They can find out collective solutions
    * They can learn collectively
    * They can enjoy ownership of learning.

We, the teachers, can motivate and help students overcome these problems. Students can be inspired to communicate with teachers on using this system and some bonus marks may be given for that.

Yours respectfully

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: shibli on October 07, 2011, 04:11:28 PM

Respected Sirs and Madams

You will be very pleased to know that 90% of our students got themselves registered in Learning Feedback System. Now it is our moral obligation to inspire and involve them in this process. This is a very useful educative tool once we start using it everyday. If we are NOT using it regularly, we are really missing something. Most of the faculty members of advanced countries have started interacting with their students online. The more we value ICT-based learning, the more we will move forward, that's for sure. In this age of technical advancement, ignoring technology means just lagging behind. We all know Apple Computer is the right example of technological innovation and differentiation.

Let us love innovation and enjoy teaching in an innovative way. Without innovation and differentiation, we cannot possibly survive.

Yours respectfully,

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: shibli on February 07, 2012, 07:35:37 PM

Respected colleagues
Engaging students in the learning feedback system might be a challenge for some of us because of some reasons:

1. Fear of mistakes: Students might be afraid of mistakes when they want to join in the discussion with other fellow students.

2. Access to Internet: Some students don't have any access to internet or they may think that using internet will be costly for them compared to its benefits derived from writing.

3.  Lack of creativity: Many students didn't learn to think as they feel teachers will give them questions and they will memorize them

Suggestions:

We can inspire the students in a way that they are motivated to discuss. We can motivate them with both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. We can also design the questions and customize them as per the requirements of the course.

I would be happy if you visit the following topic to see how i engage my students in getting the feedback from them. Please log in the learning Feedback first of all, then click the following link...

http://sw.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=53159&group_guid=18663

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: arefin on February 08, 2012, 09:56:47 AM

Thank you sir for your post.

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: Nusrat Nargis on February 27, 2012, 11:05:54 AM

thank u sir for the post. the social web is truly an effective tool for getting feedback from the students.

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: Sima on March 21, 2012, 11:16:41 AM

Thank you sir for discussing such useful information...

Title: Re: Dear colleagues
Post by: Sharmin Jahan on March 22, 2012, 12:02:46 PM

Sir, thanks a lot for your post.