Student Interviews
In designing online courses we want to develop them for the people that will be students in these courses. Students who take online courses are varied individuals and participate in the life of the seminary in a variety of was. Some online students will be members of our MDiv. or MA Distributed Learning Cohorts, others will be long distance commuters to Luther Seminary, they may be residential students who for many reasons have decided to take an online class, or they might be a student from an affiliated institution.
In this exercise, we will get to know several online students. Each faculty member will be assigned a student, who they are to contact and interview. Faculty should find out information such as the students program involvement, their reasons for taking online courses, their experiences in online learning, the students learning goals in their course work and degree program, etc. On Thursday morning, we will each introduce our assigned student and share what we learned in the interviews with the student.