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How appropriate are the subject and contents for teaching in web? What advantages
and challenges does the web implementation bring to studying this subject?
I’m a bit confused as the course is mostly for students in Helsinki university and university of
Eastern Finland. If so, some of the students will meet each other I suppose, so the course is in fact
not only an online course. I think you should take to account and take advantage of the fact that the
students probably already know quite well each other inside the two universities, but not between
them. That might affect to the social behavior of the students, for example so that students mostly
comment on their friends’ blogs.
Otherwise I like the idea, I think it might be fun for students to start in this way their own food blog,
if they already don’t have one. I’d like to know more about what you mean by food culture, how
deeply you go to the different cultures behind the food? Asia and Africa for example have a huge
amount of different cultures inside them.
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How are the learning goals described?
They are quite clearly disposed in the script. The first goal is anyway a bit vague for me as I said,
what means to “Define the fundamentals of global cuisines and cultures”?
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How would you evaluate the studying methods in the course? Do they support gaining
the learning goals? Justify.
The role of individual and collaborative learning is a bit unclear, as my team members have already
commented. They seem to have only one group work on the second week, but I think it could be
fruitful to use more collaboration as there are students living and studying in same cities. Cooking,
searching information and thinking about cultures is always more fun together, and in collaboration
there is also the possibility to avoid stereotypes made from different cultures. Unfortunately in
homogenous (read Finnish in this context) groups there is also the possibility to make the
stereotypes more strong.
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How coherent are evaluation methods with the aims and studying methods of the
course?
In my opinion it’s always somehow discouraging to receive only pass/fail evaluation, and even
more if the course has been something creative like this might be. Some written feedback to blogs
from the teacher too could for example be great, maybe you were thinking about that but I just
didn’t understand it! Will the evaluation be mostly about how well they have found different recipes
etc. or about how their attitudes/knowledge toward different cultures have changed?
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Is tutor's role defined appropriately?
I was wondering will one teacher make all the videos, or will there be original people from different
countries? And will the teacher be also physically there if needed (if she/he is for example a teacher
in Helsinki university)? Otherwise I think the tutor’s role was clear.
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What are good sides of this pedagogical script? Which parts need further
consideration?
I think I already treated the parts that need further consideration for my point of view so to the good
sides! The idea is great and has the possibility to be not only fun and something different but also
really giving new ideas of other cultures. I think food is something that connects everybody, an easy
way to face differences. But making food and enjoying it is a social event, so I’d love to have more
of that in the course!
The script itself was clear and comfortable to read, good job!