Abstract
Feeding Students Quality Assessment Feedback in Curricula Design and Restructuring
Track: Designing Curriculum and Degree Programs for Higher Education
Author(s): Miguel Peixoto, Maria Guerra, Ana Costa, Marco Painho
Quality plays a major role in educational systems and should be assessed in every educational institution. E-learning tends do be looked at as an imperfect alternative for presential teaching methods and quality assessment can revert this attitude towards e-learning. ISEGI - New University of Lisbon (UNL, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) teaches, since 2002, a MSc in Geographical Information Systems and Science (GIS&Sc) through e-learning which is the first MSc in Portugal offered in distance learning mode. In order to evaluate this course and improve its quality, a study was carried out to identify the student's experience with this learning methodology, focusing several topics such as: curricula contents, instructional design, lecturers, students' relationships and platform technical issues. This study was supported by a questionnaire/interview answered by present and former students. The questionnaire, the interview methodology and the quality assessment procedure are detailed. Finally, the results are discussed and some conclusions of this study are drawn.
Miguel Peixoto
ISEGI-UNL
Campus de Campolide
Lisboa , n/a 1500-048
PT
Phone: +351-213870413
E-mail: mpeixoto@isegi.unl.pt
Maria Guerra
ISEGI-UNL
Campus de Campolide
Lisboa , N/A 1070-312
PT
Phone: +351-213870413
E-mail: helena@isegi.unl.pt
Ana Costa
ISEGI-UNL
Campus de Campolide
Lisboa , N/A 1070-312
PT
Phone: +351-213870413
E-mail: ccosta@isegi.unl.pt
Marco Painho
ISEGI-UNL
Campus de Campolide
Lisboa , N/A 1070-312
PT
Phone: +351-213870413
E-mail: painho@isegi.unl.pt