Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Inés Leyba -
Number of replies: 5

Hello everyone!

We hope you were able to see our proposed module!

We would like to share with you some of the challenges we faced in implementing this module. 

What are your recommendations and suggestions to overcome these challenges?


Challenge 1:

The need for a self-assessment questionnaire so that students can progress during the virtual phase:

Apart from the exchanges that students make at the end of the module, there is a lack of self-assessment to accompany and guide students during the virtual phase.


Challenge 2:

Balance between teaching satellite products and teaching programming

The COLAB notebook is designed so that students do not need to be programmers and do not need to do extensive editing. The aim is for them to understand step by step what they are doing and to modify what they want to do, and not to fall into a big "black box". And that can fail. We have both 4th, 5th and postgraduate students, so not all students arrive at this stage with the same level of programming knowledge, so the work in the classroom or virtual support is personalised.


Challenge 3:

We need a better way to connect platforms like Colab with Moodle or Google Classroom.

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Re: Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Inés Leyba -
One last question!

What other kind of tool do you think would be appropriate to include in the face-to-face part?
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Re: Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Roro Yuliana PURWANTI -
Hi Ines

Thanks for sharing the activity. I can say that having a virtual programming class is a challenge.
To your question no 1, I would suggest the Think-Do-Feel table. This simple self-assesment table will measure the aspect of knowledge, skills, and attitude of the student


Ask the students to fill in the "Before" column on the 1st day of training, and the "After" column on the last day. Make them reflect on the improvement of their capacity.

The thing we usually do here in our training session is that we do 10-20-70 methods. 10% in the classroom, 20% in coaching mentoring (they have a tutor to consult with during the project), and 70% (they need to have one implementation project in their working unit, that should be finished in 1 - 3 months). After 3 months, they need to present the project in the evaluation meeting.

Thank you. I hope you find it useful.

Roro
 
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Re: Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Inés Leyba -
Thank you Roro for your suggestions!

I find it very interesting to implement the Think-Do-Feel table. Thanks for sharing it!
I also liked the "70 20 10" content approach. I think you could think of something similar with the mentoring part for the programming part.

Thanks for these triggering ideas that enrich the proposed module!
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Re: Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Vesa Nietosvaara -
Hi, Ines, some quick thoughts to your points 1 and 2:
Challenge 1: virtual phases are challenging if there is no frequent contact with the peers and instructors. Would frequent (weekly) meetings help in checking how everyone is doing?
Challenge 2: Could you imagine offering at the beginning some tutorials for early learners, and then continue with the full group ?

And finally, "What other kind of tool do you think would be appropriate to include in the face-to-face part?": A playground using i.e. SIFT (Satellite Information Familiriazation Tool) from Univ Wisconsin might be something exciting for the classroom times to visualise and play with the data? See also this presentation.


Kind regards,
Vesa
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Re: Recommendations and suggestions to overcome some challenges

by Ibrahim Al Abdulsalam -
I just wanted to add this comment here; it might make sense:

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