Week of December 3 - 9 Discussion Question #2

2). What was your favorite thing about the class?  What was your least favorite thing about the class?  How can this class be improved?  Again, be specific. 

My favorite thing about this class was that it was really easy and convenient to do work. I could separate my responsibilities and return to working on this class at a time when i saw best fit. In addition to being convenient, the course content is something that we shouldn't forget about within the next year (like most courses). I liked that this class was able to apply skills to reality because i feel that education is very effective and helpful when it can be applied to real life. This makes it easier to comprehend and understand while learning a bit more about the world. My least favorite thing about this class were the difficulties of the quizzes and the absence of a real life instructor. It isn't just helpful to have a real life instructor to answer questions you may have immediately but it helps students who learn better through visuals than online reading. I felt that some of the questions on the quiz were a bit tricky and some of the answers were very similar to each other, I was confused for some questions and seeing that 1 question was 5% of your quiz grade, i had a hard time deciding which answer would be more appropriate. I think this class could be improved by using a little more visual learning process. This is just an idea but maybe powerpoint presentations? I know the chapter wrap up posts are supposed to be in place of a lecture but power points allow for professors to go into a little more detail and gives us a small heads up of which concept is more important or likely to show up on a quiz. These are all small and minor things though, this course is devised out very simple and organized (through Professor Perez's blog idea).