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http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/FEB02_Issue/article03.html

Making Teachers Feel Contented with Online Courses
Lev Abramov, Natalie Martkovich, LA e-Learning Center

Our aim was to examine levels of satisfaction of English teachers (currently taking online courses or having taken such courses in the past), and determine the factors influencing them. Very often, online course designers do not get sufficient feedback on levels of satisfaction of their courses’ participants – feedback that might otherwise bring forth some improvement in the course design and delivery approaches, as well as in proper placement testing procedures. We were especially interested in observing some connection between confidence levels of participants (i.e., to what extent they felt computer-fluent) and their satisfaction levels, in order to find out whether this connection indeed exists, and if so, what sort of relation it is – positive or negative....

  posted by Ray at 4/14/2002 02:49:00 PM permanent item link   

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