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TECH-EDUCATION 2010: Technology Enhanced Learning. Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform pp 379–386Cite as

A Process for Improving Course Quality Based on Mid-semester Feedback

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Quality control mechanisms are becoming more important in higher educational institutions. Student evaluation of teaching is typically used to obtain feedback from students about a learning experience but its effect in the course may take too long. Fast feedback mechanisms, in exchange, look at obtaining feedback in order to apply corrective measures quickly. In this paper a process is described to obtain feedback from the students about a course, analyze the received results, and identify the most significant aspects. The process has been applied to a course and led to some adjustments that had immediate impact on the course.

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  1. Department of Telematic Engineering, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

    Abelardo Pardo, Iria Estévez-Ayres, Pablo Basanta-Val & Damaris Fuentes-Lorenzo

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  1. The American College of Greece, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. University of Oviedo, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  3. ESSEC Business School, Cergy Pontoise Cedex, France

    David Avison

  4. Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA

    Janice Sipior

  5. Dept. Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa, 359-1192, Saitama, Japan

    Qun Jin

  6. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal

  7. Staffordshire University, Becaonside, Stafford, UK

    Lorna Uden

  8. Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan

    Michael Thomas

  9. Trieste University, Italy

    Sara Cervai

  10. The American College of Greece, Aghia Paraskevi, Greece

    David Horner

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Pardo, A., Estévez-Ayres, I., Basanta-Val, P., Fuentes-Lorenzo, D. (2010). A Process for Improving Course Quality Based on Mid-semester Feedback. In: Lytras, M.D., et al. Technology Enhanced Learning. Quality of Teaching and Educational Reform. TECH-EDUCATION 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13166-0_54

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