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February 28, 2012 | By:  Nick Morris
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Surviving the semester: Summary

Well, over the past few months I have written 10 posts on Surviving the Semester (11 if you include this one):

So, what is the take home message from this? Well, I don't think there is just one. What I learnt from the semester was that it is possible to run very large blocks of assessments with students, but that unfortunately the assessment system I had access to - Chalkboard - was not really fit for purpose as it provided poor feedback (which I had to work around) and more worryingly the lack of question types meant that the style of the assessment that I wanted to run was dictated by the limitation of the VLE (virtual leaning environment; see Do you speak my language: V is for Volume, Vapourware, Virus, VoIP, VNC, VPN, VLE, Virtual Campus). Essentially this is pedagogically unsound.

In addition I discovered that HTML5 (see Surviving the semester: Designing a virtual lab - HTML5) has reached a level of maturity and browser support such that it is now possible to produce browser-based animations that are suitable and sophisticated enough for teaching.

And finally, I guess that if I really did have to come up with one overall overarching message that came from all of this then it was that the 5 Ps (prior preparation prevents poor performance) are valid as none of the things I did last semester would have been possible without considerable preparation over the summer period before the classes started.

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