Comments on: Rating Professors https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=14 Online Learning and Training Mon, 13 Oct 2014 18:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.25 By: Express Backup https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=14#comment-38 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:05:40 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2008/10/03/rating-professors/#comment-38 Express Backup

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]]> By: Emily https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=14#comment-37 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:46:57 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2008/10/03/rating-professors/#comment-37 I used ratemyprofessors.com at Penn State University because I felt as a student, my experiences and opinions about courses never got past the bubbled sheets we had to fill in at the end of the semester (prior to grades). As a teacher myself, I would want to know how my students felt about their learning experiences and I think ratemyprofessor.com is a step in the right direction. Of course you will have students who post out of revenge, but if given the opportunity to back-up their ratings with comments, I think these sites can really help professors improve their courses. Also, it can help learners choose a specific professor for a course based on their individual learning styles as opposed to simple random selection.

]]> By: Lisa Neal Gualtieri https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=14#comment-36 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:45:26 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2008/10/03/rating-professors/#comment-36 I wonder if there are other rating systems that provide feedback in a more meaningful and useful way? Certainly the feedback I get from my students at Tufts is very helpful, but it is through internal surveying, not a public website.

]]> By: Haitham El-Ghareeb https://blog.elearnmag.acm.org/?p=14#comment-35 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:42:08 +0000 http://wp.acm.org/elearn/2008/10/03/rating-professors/#comment-35 Always surprising me with your posts, as usual and as you always do.
First of all, What I am going to say right now is the result of a real experience. I have not heard about http://www.ratemyprofessors.com before I attended a seminar that is conducted by one of the most famous Egyptian/American Professors, so many of us attended that day (us = Faculty members, and peoples who are interested). We concluded an opinion of the lecture (based on our attendance), and I was really shocked. In the beginning, I thought this is because it is a seminar and of course that is not the case during lectures. I could not find anyone to ask that question but http://www.ratemyprofessors.com
Ok, so Rating Professors is a great tool that gives students the space to express themselves and share ideas about their professors. BUT, when I thought about implementing it in my faculty, I was told directly to (stop the hassle). Professors cannot believe the idea of giving students the space to rate them. Professors tend to think about professors as (not qualified) to express the truth or taking revenge (as a result of bad grades), and of course that was the end of the experience.
Professors Rating Tools will last or not? a real tough question to answer, because answering such a question depends on many different factors. From my point of view, it will expand much more than it is right now. With the evolution of online learning, online rating will be much more important.
Sorry for the long comment, But I really couldn’t help it :)

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