1st Year Philosophy Students: Blended Learning Space Promotes Pre-Reading and Preparation

1st Year Philosophy Students: Blended Learning Space Promotes Pre-Reading and Preparation

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Lecturers, Simon Beck and Tony Oyowe have created an online interactive environment for their first year Philosophy students (PHI 111). This environment is an information sharing and communicative space between the lecturers and students that entails all the necessary learning material that is needed for the successful completion of the module.

Lesson Weekly Schedule Promotes Pre-Reading and Preparation
The lecturers have created a Weekly Schedule that entails everything that will be covered in the lessons during the specific weeks. This also allows students to pre-read so that they can be prepared for their lesson. Content is presented on the pages through various media formats - video, text and links to resources.

Effective Weekly Communication
The lecturers make use of the Announcements eTool to effectively communicate with the students regarding information pertaining to the module such as lecture times, assessment activities and tutorial sessions).  

Measures taken to Combat the Impact of Loadshedding on Classes and Assessments
Due to the recurring pandemic, loadshedding - the lecturers have taken necessary measures to make sure that students don’t fall behind on classes and tests.  The lecturer posts a lecture video on iKamva so that students can be able to watch and download the lecture video.

Class tests are setup online and opened up for a window period of time, to allow students to do the tests on times that they are not affected by loadshedding. These tests draws from question pools so that students get random questions to complete.

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