Module review: a tutor’s perspective

From my perspective, the most rewarding aspect of the two runnings of Living and Working on the Web this term was the interaction between the Singapore students (#MANG2049) and the UK students (#UOSM2033) who coincidently all studied Topic 5 at the same time. (The Singapore students took the whole module intensively over 12 days, the UK students over 12 weeks.)

24 hits on my blog today from Singapore. Cracking. #UOSM2033 http://t.co/Ctqv2txjCm

— Andy Sugden (@AndySugden) December 10, 2014

What a better way than to reflect on 'Open Access', by commenting on 'Yvonne' blogs on the corresponding #MANG2049 course! #UOSM2033

— Catherine Hunt (@CatherineHunt94) December 9, 2014

See for example UK student Catherine’s interaction with Yvonne from Singapore, and Anna’s Storify of inter-module discussions. Pippa’s post reflects on the role of new tool choices, exchanges of views with Singapore, and her interactions with Jack Andraka the presenter of a TED talk.

The Singapore students in particular were very much “thrown into the deep end” in their first term of University study, so it was very pleasing to get some great feedback :-)

We ran a daily Hangout of between 30 minutes and one hour to make up for the lack of face to face interaction. Catherine and Charlie from the UK group joined Olja and myself in the second hangout for the Singapore students, then Evan and Benjamin from the Singapore group joined in for our final official hangout

They also collaborated with each other: Sara and Evelina interviewed each other on camera for their final reflective post, and then Evan organised a final hangout where groups of students joined in from local cafes.

Finally I would like to mention Aetiiqcaz who came up with this amazing video introduction to his final post – it sums up the entire spirit of the module. Thank you to all of you for your contributions!