Course Improvement
December 8, 2007I enjoyed the course format and learned a great deal through this format. The discussion board, study guide and writing assignments were all extremely useful. The discussion board and writing assignments offered tremendous development and practice opportunities. The study book provided direction to keep me focused on the correct subject matter.
The readings were enlightening and insightful. Some of them seemed a little dated, particularly for a course dealing with rapidly advancing technology and changing user habits.
I think more writing assignments and maybe a little less of the reading assignments would help many students. Besides developing an understanding of how digital media is different, I would guess most students would want to improve their writing skills as much as possible.
In place of some of the readings, students could be required to search the Web and come up with readings of their own that are relevant. These could be shared with the class as one or more of the module assignments.
Readings that were most useful:
- All readings from the study guide
- Vonnegut and Palser from module 1
- “Revising with Feedback”
- Time magazine’s “Person of the Year”
- “When, How to Tell Stories with Text, Multimedia”
- Anderson’s Long Tail
- Nichols’ Newspapers and After
The readings that were least useful:
- Living in the Information Age
- Gallagher reading
