Constructing Quality Feedback to the Students in Distance Learning: Review of the Current Evidence with Reference to the Online Master Degree in Transplantation

Halawa, Ahmed ORCID: 0000-0002-7305-446X, Sharma, Aja, Bridson, Julie, Lyon, Sarah, Prescott, Denise, Guha, Arpan and Taylor, David ORCID: 0000-0002-3296-2963 (2017) Constructing Quality Feedback to the Students in Distance Learning: Review of the Current Evidence with Reference to the Online Master Degree in Transplantation. World Journal of Education, 7 (4). p. 117.

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Abstract

<jats:p>Introduction: It was a challenge to design a feedback pathway for distance learning course that deals with complexand ambiguous clinical subject like organ transplantation. This course attracts mature clinicians (n=117 spread overthree modules) from 27 countries where in addition to the time and zone barriers; there are cultural, institutionalbackground and also ethnic barriers. In addition to the challenges faced in designing the curriculum and assessmentthat match this diverse group of students, we have to deliver a quality feedback to achieve our leaning objective. Howwould we construct and deliver this feedback to students you have not seen (in a virtual classroom) and may be on adifferent continent of this busy planet?Methods: We analysed the published data on feedback with reflection on the nature of this course and the pedagogyused while considering the diversity of the students joined this courseConclusion: In this distance-learning course constructing a quality feedback to the students is more technicallydemanding compared to a traditional course. Students in distance learning need much more support and feedback thanin a traditional course. There is a potential threat that these students feel isolated in their own online world and may notengage with this virtual educational environment properly.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2017 14:26
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:54
DOI:	10.5430/wje.v7n4p117
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009548