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Student Assessment and Background Variation
Flexnet courses are both online, and face-to-face, and so have a variety of assessment methods available, including both written and oral components, though all require English fluency. Technology competency and small group work are key. Face-to-face assessment methods vary widely, and include oral presentations, oral class discussions, and small group work resulting in a written product. All of these, of course, are conducted in English, and therefore require English reading comprehension and writing skills, as well as oral communication.
Flexnet courses are both online, and face-to-face, and so have a variety of assessment methods available. Online courses based in newsgroups have primarily written assessments, including mandatory short-answer essays and written participation, which requires both reading comprehension and writing skills. Longer written essays and PowerPoint presentations are both common online assessment methods. Small group learning teams will require proficiency in informal written communication, and possibly oral
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Since only there are only two face-to-face meetings in the course, the primary mode of communication is writing. Most of the students are fluent in English, and should do well at the mandatory short-answer essays (AKA Discussion Questions (DQs)). Presumably, most of the material required for the DQs and participation components of the course is written, and so reading comprehension of both other students' work and of the course material will be a factor, particularly of the non-native English speakers in the course. There may be some cultural gaps in the give-and-take of the written participation required by the course, since not all students are native English speakers.
Much of the work has an informal component, meaning that it's not necessarily written in Standard American English. This is particularly idiomatic, and can be difficult to comprehend for…
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