1. Semi-Continuous Monitoring of Student Feedback in Interactive Synchronous E-Learning Environments

2. 2 Peter Soreanu Department of Software Engineering ORT Braude Engineering College, Karmiel, Israel speter1@usa.net Emil Saucan Technion-Israel Technological Institute Haifa, Israel semil11@yahoo.com

3. 3 The Problem: Lack of teacher's immediacy in synchronous e-learning environments

4. 4 Possible Solutions: Two-way video/audio Voting mechanisms Body and face recognition

5. 5 Our Solution: Semi-continuous monitoring of students' feedback

6. 6 The Program: Java-based Teacher-side (on Web server) Student-side (on students' PCs)

7. 7 Student-side:

8. 8 Teacher-side: Session-programming screen Feedback results screen Database and Statistics

9. 9 Session Parameters: 2 monitored variables Prompting time intervals Prompting methods

10. 10 Feedback Results Screen

11. 11 Database and Statistics: As for now - Data logging SPSS batch processing In work - Online processing Visualizations

12. 12 Research Questions: Comfort of use (technical) User satisfaction

13. 13 Target Population: 123 3rd year Software Engineering students (29F, 93M) 2 instructors (with 2 and 1 class respectively)

14. 14 Computer-Use Habits: 87% every day 13% several times/week

15. 15 Frequency of Messaging: 64% ≥ 4 times/week 28% 1-3 times/week 8%< 1 time/week 8%< 1 time/week

16. 16 Tested Items (Student Comfort): 5-points Likert-scale 1=strongly disagree 2=disagree3=undecidable4=agree 5=strongly agree 5=strongly agree

17. 17 The Items: "It was easy for me to operate the feedback window" (M=4.6) "The prompts didn't distract me from content" (M=4.2) "I understood well the meaning of the feedback values" (M=4.1) "I reacted to most of the prompts during the session" (M=4.3)

18. 18 Tested Item (Student Satisfaction) : 5-points Likert-scale 1=very unsatisfying 2=unsatisfying3=undecidable4=satisfying 5=very satisfying 5=very satisfying

19. 19 The Item: "How would you describe your overall experience in using the feedback monitoring program?" (M=4.35)

20. 20 Future Research (1): Further study of the monitoring program's effects, in order to Refine its use Establish feedback templates Find the optimum prompts

21. 21 Future Research (2): Study the influence of visual feedback on instructors' behavior Measure student satisfaction with more items Study the relations between class behavior and the use of the program

22. 22 Thank you! Q & A?