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Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly- Wired Country Moshe Roth EFL Unit Ben-Gurion University Be’er Sheva, Israel

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Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly-Wired Country. Moshe Roth EFL Unit Ben-Gurion University Be’er Sheva, Israel. Research Questions . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly-Wired Country

Students, Teachers and Online Teaching

Tools in a Highly-Wired Country

Moshe RothEFL Unit

Ben-Gurion University Be’er Sheva, Israel

Page 2: Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly-Wired Country

Is there any correlation between the number of online courses a full-time student has in a given semester and his/ her utilization of the online tool?

Do teachers take full advantage of the online tool using all the features it has to offer?

Research Questions

Page 3: Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly-Wired Country

Two-Part QuestionnairePart One: the studentsa) How many courses are you taking this

semester? How many are online?b) Do you feel that HighLearn/ Moodle is

beneficial to the learning process? Explain.c) How often do you logon during the

semester?d) Do you logon when off campus?

Method: Part One

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e) Have you ever used the learning- groups feature? (where students can study together)

f) Have you ever contacted the class using the bulletin board or directory? (where messages can be posted or sent)

Method: Part One (continued)

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asked students about teachers:a) Are assignments and feedback posted?b) Do your teachers use the various

Collaboration tools? i) forums: teachers and students can

discuss course-related issues ii) polls

Method: Part Two

Page 6: Students, Teachers and Online Teaching Tools in a Highly-Wired Country

“high” vs. “low”- not an issue: Most logon at least once a day. All but 14 (of 528) logon when off campus. learning groups, bulletin board, directory

features: underused (Facebook used instead??)

Most students feel that HL/ Moodle is beneficial but there is a small group of “nay-sayers.”

Conclusion: the students (first question)

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Learning forum could be used a bit more. Hardly anyone conducted a poll. Teacher misuse: only uploading material/ uploading in the last

minute not explaining in class/ not posting solutions student can learn without attending too many sites/ posting in different places not removing older material/ material not

relevant/ disorganized site

Conclusion: the teachers (second question) Teachers do not use the online tool to the max.