The Importance of Feedback

As feedback is crucial for designing an outstanding learning resource, this website was peer reviewed by students in the University of Victoria EDCI 335 course. Below are links to their thoughts and critics.

Feedback From Peer Reviewers:

Based off of the peer reviews, our group decided to incoporate the following:

  • Add more detail to the learners section, and add more targeted learners
  • Move content around on the learning context page to make the outcomes clearer
  • Expand the content one the parietal lobe module
  • Having blank pages for modules 2, 3, and 4 is a bit confusing and leaves the impression that the learning resource is not completed
  • Add in-text citations to the learners page
  • Create a community page to give learners opportunities to create a community with other learners
  • Include more images and colours in the content

Rational for Incorporating the Feedback

Based off the peer reviews, our group decided to incoporate the following:

  • Our team made the decision to take into account the ideas and suggestions of our peers because they helped us discover new ways to enhance our interactive learning resource. They also gave us advice on how to make our lessons more engaging for our intended audience.
  • The first recommendation that we used was to mention that our course could be completed by busy, and single parents who have to work or study, this works well because our course is asynchronous/self-led and can be completed at anytime.
  • The learning outcomes were also included to the homepage so that students would know what they should expect to learn and retain from the course.
  • Additionally, we expanded the number of in-text citations for the ideas we referred to in the learning theory section.

Our group decided to forgo incorporating the following:

  • One suggestion was to create a discussion board for students to interact throughout the course in order to get to know one another. Due to the asynchronous nature of our course, we did not incorporate this feedback.
  • Adding more images and colours to the “About” and “Home” pages was another recommendation we did not implement into our course. Our module section already had this so we decided to leave it because we like the simplicity of our design.
  • Another idea we did not use was to have separate pages for the theoretical modules 2, 3, and 4 that would be delivered on a specified date. While we made it explicit on our “continued modules” page that such sections were purely theoretical, our reviewer believed that our learning resource gave the impression that it was incomplete.