Keywords: motivation, study skills, innovation competences, critical thinking, creativity, co-learning
The formative questionnaire is designed to provide a wide range of information about the student’s motivation and the issues affecting motivation. The form also collects information on the student’s study skills, a few innovation competencies and different ways to support learning (face-to-face or online environment).
After the formative survey, you will be able to gain more in-depth knowledge in some area by interviewing a few students.
Both formative data and interview data requires analysis in order to draw conclusions.
Recommendations: Conduct a formative survey followed by possible interviews. By analysing the collected data, you can find out, among other things, things that affect motivation.
Based on the results of motivation survey following tips for the teachers are:
Support for teachers in designing an online course:
- Design a clear structure for the course on the e-learning platform
- It is a good idea to divide the course into smaller entities on the learning platform
- Plan the course schedule
- Schedule the course workload so that the load is distributed as evenly as possible throughout the course
- Short videos support learning well alongside other material
- Plan how the learning support will be implemented in the course
- Online teaching (Teams/ Zoom)
- Create videos that provide support on the challenging issues or topics reported by students
- Chat environment
- Plan the course evaluation
- Is the grade based on assignments submitted in the course?
- Do the students get feedback on the assignments already during the course?
- Is the feedback given by the teacher or other students?
- Is there an exam on the course?
- How is the exam conducted?
