Following up on my Blog Post for Wednesday, April 7, 2010, with the opening of our final Unit Discussion, I informed my students about “Early Posting Bonus Points” in an Email, in News and also within the Discussion area itself, the latter being a third method of informing students that I tried for this final Unit.
The results were still not what I was hoping for but they were better than for the previous Unit.
Approximately 1/3 of all students posted within the first week that Discussions opened and that is up from about 1/4 for all previous units this semester.
Since I am still convinced that students are relying heavily on the 15 Week Course Schedule, rather than on Home Page News and Instructor Emails, a notation on the Course Schedule Syllabus page next semester would no doubt improve the numbers.
Lorrie
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