Abstract
Finland’s educational system has aroused the interest of educational researchers worldwide. Teaching and learning with information and communication technologies (ICT) is one of the major methodologies in the present Finnish educational discourse. Feedback and assessment are questions of course design in online learning. This paper discusses and illustrates how to plan an online course for a higher education preparatory program in Finland by using digital methods with a focus on maintaining quality in the processes of feedback and evaluation. This paper also introduces and reflects recently published quality criteria that are recommended to be used in the design of online courses.
Highlights
This article examines the processes of feedback and assessment in online language courses in higher education institutions (HEI)
A course should be structured so that it allows the students and teachers to reflect on their performance and to compare it with the set goals and to utilize the feedback they receive during the course
The discussion is a part of the Finnish project “Getting ready—A higher education preparatory program for immigrants” which aims to develop the national recommendations for online training courses for immigrants who wish to apply to study in higher education institutions
Summary
This article examines the processes of feedback and assessment in online language courses in higher education institutions (HEI). The discussion is a part of the Finnish project “Getting ready—A higher education preparatory program for immigrants” which aims to develop the national recommendations for online training courses for immigrants who wish to apply to study in higher education institutions. The concepts of quality and feedback in higher education ( quality) are defined from the viewpoint of online learning. This brief theoretical background is reflected in relation to the Languages 2019, 4, 25; doi:10.3390/languages4020025 www.mdpi.com/journal/languages. Languages 2019, 4, 25 recent quality criteria for online implementations which were published for Finnish HEIs and other educational institutions in order to build high quality online courses. We would like to open discussion on the efficiency and future development of the selected principles
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