STUDENT SATISFACTION SURVEY 2007 RESPONSES TO OPEN ...

647: Would like to see more courses offered on distance learning. I am a working mom with 4children. I am able to continue school because of distance learning. It allows me tomulti-task. For example, I can fold laundry and watch a video - if I'm distracted, Isimply rewind the movie as many times as I need too. I take my book with me and readwhenever and where ever I can. If I'm a passenger in a car . . . I can read If I don't get toreading for a few days . . . I don't panic I can catch up at my son's soccer practice. I loveit!658: The teacher should be more professional and more committed to assignments that he orshe recommends.746: Keep a close eye on your instructors. Some of them have nearly impossible workloads.772: The reason for taking a distant learning course is bc conflicting schedules with work andother things. So I think distant learning courses should be ALL online, including testmidterms finals etc...some professors have it ALL online while others do the test oncampus. Whats the point of distant learning if theyre going to do that775: I am not sure if it is the instructor who is confusing the process or the computer. There isno uniform process regarding homework submission etc.970: I have taken several. Some are excellent and others are a joke. The teacher wasn't activein the class. It was meet the first class and get a syllabus, have tests the other 4 times wemeet, no real instruction from the teacher. I agree with ending the tele courses.973: there is little to no contact with teachers, they should be more involved984: none985: I took online courses at St. Leo before and the online interaction was much better. Itwould be great if we could do exams online and turn in papers online as an attachment.Also, there is very little interaction between students and instructor online. It would bebeneficial to students if there were a couple of online assignments such as posting andresponding to the message board. Also, the response time with some instructors isunacceptable. If there is a question about the work e-mailed to the instructor and theresponse is 2 or three weeks later it is of no value. I highly recommend making theonline interaction between students a larger part of the course. I am not talking aboutgroup projects, I am talking about message boards.1007: offer more courses. I love it1114: Offer more Web CT courses. I took Astronomy via distance education and thoroughlyenjoyed it. However, I didn't like the textbook and software for the MATH 1105 class. Itis not very user friendly and the graphics were very retro. There has to be somethingmore up-to-date and easier to understand out there. I withdrew passing and am taking aseated course in spring.1155: The voicemail system is inadequate and reaching a live person by telephone is almostimpossible. When redirected electronically to voicemail you then receive message thatvoicemail box is "Full" so it is impossible to even leave a message! I live more than anhour from any one campus and I find this very frustrating and discouraging, especially ina distance learning environment!1215: This does not reflect on the course or the instructor. Both are great. I probably will nottake another online class because of my own sense of disipline to be able to handle thecourse. I prefer more face to face interaction, but the course and instructor are great.1286: make teachers avail. more for questions and help1301: More classesStudent Satisfaction Survey 2007 – Q24: Distance Learning – Page 198