This textbook was very useful for me and although I don't like paying for it, I understand why we had to do so. I felt that MindTap did a adequate job of helping me learn the material, although the chapter tests were much harder than anything else in the class for me. 

I actually was surprised at how much I liked the online textbook/ MindTap. I think considering the price I have paid for physical textbooks in the past, which is equal to or sometimes more than $80, paying to have the textbook and the quizzes/notes/check my understanding all organized in one place was very helpful.

The mind tap textbook is organized really well. Reading it and doing the weekly assignment felt seamless, I do not think there was too much information I think mind tap does a good job of relaying information without making students read 50 pages of incredibly dense text. Textbook prices suck but nothing much can be done on that front, just something that every student unfortunately has to deal with. 

I heavily used the "read out loud" function while doin mundane tasks. The hightlight tool was difficult to use, so I ended up writing or copy/pasting notes into a word doc. There's so much reading, to the point I had to stop taking notes and just plow through the week assignments. 

Content wise, there's an obvious bias or attempt to be neutral. It's understandable, as they want as many buyers as possible. Discussing the bias in the supplemental videos was great, but some aspects should be questioned included the continued use of America when only referring the US and territories, not the whole continent. There were a few other questionable aspects, but I'd have to review my notes.

The test questions were very confusing when using "except" or "not including". They're were quite a few where I knew the answer, but got the question because I'm dyslexic and couldn't make sense what the question was asking.

I really like the read it out loud feature in the online text gave me a better understanding of the information I was getting.

My MindTap experience was pretty good overall. I liked that I could log in and do the work bit by bit throughout the week and I liked being able to review and change my answers for three tries, personally I am dyslexic and I tend to misread answers or misread questions so it helps me get a full understanding of the question and answers. The chapter quizzes were not too hard, I do believe that if I tried a little harder on them in the beginning of the course I could have done a lot better. I like the simplicity of the lessons and assignments, and I was able to get really good notes from the online textbook that will help me in this coming final exam. 

I was frustrated that I paid for the class and then on top of this paid 80 for a textbook which was my main source of learning besides the videos each week. I did not feel that the professor did much work for the students. The book is worth it if included in the price of the class because the book taught me everything.

the textbook was really interesting to study with  positives

The textbook was very boring to read at times, but that can probably be said about any textbook so overall it was great.

Overall the book was great. The price is definitely reasonable. Sometimes the way certain questions were worded in the Chapter tests was misleading/confusing, even with being able to look at the book and notes. Even though looking at historical documents/speeches when doing the Chapter Tests was interesting, scores were based on understanding of those documents which, based on some of the language, was hard to understand at times, I feel like the Chapter Tests should have been more focused on what we actually read in the book instead of adding things just because they were relevant to what we read about. The documents/speech evaluation would be better suited as a separate activity with more than one attempt. Overall, mindTap was good, but the Chapter Tests could be better. I liked the way the textbook was divided into specific sections, that made it easy to follow and easy to go back to. 

I really liked the textbook, and the online checks it does. I am more of a paperback type of learner, so I didn't care for the online version. I did however like the read to text option- that way I could take notes w/o having to look up at the computer.

I enjoyed the book, and I prefer the format that mindtap uses, it allows me to easily find where I left off. For such a high price I would expect the book to be longer. That being said I am very satisfied with the overall quality of the book.

worked very well for me

I felt that the video quizzes descriptions were very helpful, and I could easily identiify how each of these clips contributed to my overall understanding of course material.

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The clips were fine for me personally 

I think the video quizzes added a cool concept to the class. Watching those videos helped me gain a better understanding of the material. However I do believe that sometimes the questions were too specific and I had trouble at times trying to find the right word for the answer, however that could also be a mistake on my part for not taking the right notes on a video. Besides that, I enjoyed the videos.

I wish there were guided notes as we watched. This would help on the quizzes 

The video clips helped me better understand the topics they covered and were clearly related to the reading, they were the most enjoyable part of the class.

The Videos were amazing. Great way to round understanding of the material. I did take notes while watching the videos. LOTS of notes, the longer clips sometimes had several pages of notes. Being able to pause was VERY helpful. One thing that would help would be the ability to turn on the closed captioning. I tried many times, and tried to change the settings so that they would work but they never turned on. Some of the clips, especially the sections where the recordings were quite old, or narrators from clips that came out during that time period, like the Why We Fight video,  some words were hard to understand, and I had to rewind several times to catch the word. The videos overall were such a great way to gain more understanding. They were engaging, and interesting, i really liked the Disney Clip from the WW2 chapter. Seeing interviews from people who lived through the times was also fascinating, Needing to know what certain narrators or interviewees said about a certain topic for the Video quizzes did make it difficult to determine what would be picked for a quiz, so again, LOTS of notes on what everyone was saying in each video were taken. Though time consuming, it did help me pay closer attention. 

I really wish you could do more videos of you teaching. I know with COVID that it's hard, but a video a week of just you teaching and telling us information or reviewing this weeks chapter would be nice. I feel like I learned more from you about the midterm/ the first part of the class when I met with you via zoom. You took the time to explain things, and listened to why I chose an answer, therefore I think a weekly end of chapter video would be nice, for you to sum things up in about 15 minutes. You also showed your screen and googled the democratic webpage. That is a great example, of something you could put into your videos.

I would say so yes

worked well

I personally don't like zoom meetings or classes that are mandatory, but I really appreciate the option to meet up if I am struggling in a course or neeed extra help.

I do not like Zoom I find it hard to focus and just not helpful I would rather learn on my own.

As anxious person, it was way better to have optional zoom, especially during pandemic, weird work hours and general life stuff. This course really complimented other courses that were more zoom orientated.

I preferred having the zoom classes be optional, as someone who works 4 to 5 days a week for almost 10 hours a day. I never had the time for zoom classes, and I was grateful for the flexibility.

I do not like using zoom for class. I do however like being able to get on a zoom call with a teacher if I have questions about the course

I think for this class it will  cool if we have have a a zoom meeting once a week.  

My other class this term had two weekly zoom meetings where the professor would discuss each week's topic. He would ask questions and it offered an opportunity for class participation. He would sometimes use slides and offer warms up that would be used to gain extra credit. Then we would discuss the warm up answers and be able to learn more.  The attendance to the zoom lectures was optional not mandatory, but a good opportunity to gain extra credit, engage in discussion, ask questions, and  sometimes get better insight on what the professor wanted us to focus on for exams. Overall I really liked that system. 

With my work schedule of being full time in healthcare, I knew I wouldn't be able to commit to a mandatory meeting multiple times a week, but one meeting a week would be nice. Maybe give the people who attend 1 credit of extra credit (9 credits total) for a term.

Where i live there is very slow internet so having to use zoom doesn't work for me.  

I personally don't feel like this is the best way to enforce students to work, since many have other obligations, school work or whatever, that need attention during the week. This is partly what I love about online courses, since I have many things to do throughout the week. If a student decides to do it all sunday night, then the loss of learning that occurs will be reflected in their grade, and that is on them in my opinion.

I think for a lot of people who choose classes like this with no Zoom or in person meetings its because they have very limited time to do work, like said above maybe the only time they could do this is on the weekend. These deadlines may separate the check your understanding activities from the chapter test but the people who do this to procrastinate would likely just complete all of the activities on the day of the deadline just like before.

Flexibility is always the best in my personal opinion. Everyone learns in a different way, the current format allows students to log in multiple times during the week if they want to. Other students can do it during the weekends if that is how they learn best. 

Sometimes I don't realise how much work each week really is. Having an assignment or two due earlier would require me to look at the weeks assignments and get started sooner. This is also maybe just something I should do personally in general.

I mostly did work on the weekends because I was less busy, and it made it easier to just sit town and be focused on the one thing they everything Elsa going on in my life.

I have concerns with this because as someone who worked a lot during this term I would be guilty of logging in last minute, however it was due to never having much free time during the week. While I agree I should have attempted to make time, sometimes it's just hard to come home after a rough shift and try to focus on an assignment or quiz. Obviously I don't speak for everyone in my position, plenty of students are able to do both, personally I just don't see spread out due dates being good for students with busier lives. 

I think that the student should be able to choose how deep their learning goes and how much they want to get out of the class

I am both for it for the ideas 

I do procrastinate a lot so midweek deadlines would help with that.

I think enforcing more deadlines could be tricky for the reasons you mentioned of family, work, etc... Perhaps to encourage more participation throughout the week for the assignments maybe offering a couple points of extra credit would be helpful. This could be tricky to organize and keep track of perhaps. So I can understand if that isn't doable. Maybe since you were already mentioning more deadlines, you could suggest "ill be checking mindtap on these days throughout the week, the folks who complete xyz by this date will get 1 point of extra credit" or .5 points for Tuesday. and .5 for Thursday for a total of 1 extra credit point per week, or however many points you think is fair and a decent incentive.  That way those who don't or can't can still meet the Sunday Deadline without losing out and without extra stress. 

I work full time, and would often times get up at 4am to do homework for this class and others. After work, I am drained, and can not learn/sit in front of a computer.

From my past experiences, I much prefer the Sunday deadline, the main reason being that I have to work a lot of the time and don't always have time to study at a good consistent time.

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I would've done the extra credit this term, but the first time I saw it I was extremely sick and had just finished all my other work in this class for the week, so I was pretty beat. I would love an extra video quiz with extended knowledge on a subject that you feel the course doesn't go into enough depth with (maybe WW2), that way the students son't have to write any papers and they learn things that are valuable to them with the high chance of doing well since those quizzes were easy to do well on.

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Extra credit is extra work. When there's already so much needed to learn, understand and digest, adding another item to the pile just doesn't seem worth it when you're already behind. I'd suggest dropping the worst assignment grade and doing the average for either the videos or the tests, especially since there's no make-up opportunities.

I really like the idea of extra credit opportunities, Some of my other classes at LCC would give us a Worksheet or something to help us on the up coming test, and if completed and got a good score on it they would give us some extra credit. You always give them more then one opion on a extra credit like eaither have them chose to right a paragrah on a Historical person or watch a 1hr long video and take a text on it 

I enjoyed the extra credit and did it. I really liked having the option for extra credit and I do the extra credit in my other classes as well. 

I should have done the extra credit opportunity but I never found the time and procrastinated too much. But I think the extra credit you offer is sufficient.

I thought the extra credit assignment was great. I love that it came with the questions to look out for. I can see that the one hour length of the video might have deterred people from participating since we already have a lot of work to do not only in this class but perhaps others (if taking more than one class) plus other life obligations. Other ideas could be a list of 20 questions we have to answer. or a term matching exercise. This is a tough question, and I have many ideas but they would be time consuming and/or difficult to make available to everyone, like watching a major motion film based on the topic. like watching Pearl Harbor, or Dunkirk, or Midway, or 1917 and write a paragraph of your thoughts and how it helps you understand xyz about this topic. 

As listed in question 23, it would be another way to recieve extra credit. In my math class a term ago he would do a "your turn" where he would give us a question and we needed to do it in order to receive credit. You could do something like "Since this week we talked about the Great Depression, look up the cost of milk, and bread and report back to me. This will give you a feel for not only how much it cost, but the sense of inflation from then to now."

I have never done the extra credit option, partly because i forget about them or if i am happy with my grade 

i think you did well

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Crash Course History - a bit the world history & bits of US history.

I know some teachers go to quizlet.com and make some like flash card they can use throughout their class you might want to look at that you can make 2 one for the mid-term and one for finals that might help.

I think that an app called Discord would be great, you could add all the students to a personal server and give them the opportunity to discuss topics and give each other help with homework. Its easy to use and easy to run once you get the hang of it. 

I haven't found anything. I do like the Cengage App though. It was nice to study on the go.

It was a little messy, but I understand why it was organized this way with so much material to include in the class and I think that it should work for most students as long as they read the syllabus and understand this early on. I missed the first video quiz becuase I hadn't done just that. Other classes I have taken were better organized just because they had much less content. 

It worked well, this has been a common way of how my online courses have been organized.

The organization of the class worked very well for me, being able to open or collapse the different weeks was very useful in sorting information 

I had the videos freeze and crash quite a few times. I'd have to reload the page every two minutes to make it through an eight minute video. 

I really like how you have you have it as a folder view style it makes it easier when I need help finding things.

It worked well for me. I was always aware of the due dates, except for that one mishap where I mistook 10-12pm for 10-12am on the midterm exam, but regardless that was still 100% my fault. 

I really like the way it is set up and I wasn't confused each week. Teachers have set things up different before and I find that required work gets missed because of it

I like it it makes it easy to figure out what week and where all my homework is stored. 

I like the Moodle setup that you used. It was helpful for me and easy to understand.

I think the links worked really well. My other class did basically the same thing, and it works really well. 

You did a great job! Very organized!

I liked it, and don't have any complaints that come to mind

I personally have no problem with the free use internet sites, as I use them regularly so I don't have to pay for textbooks for other classes, and I dont mind reading online as Im pretty used to it. I've taken a class that used only online materials and it worked fine because the website was reliable for the duration of the term. If you were to pull this off you would need a reliable website that had accurate and trustworthy (nonbiased) historical information. It would be a challenge but I think it's possible.

I expect to have to purchase textbooks so I do not mind having to pay. I think in most of my classes I have either had to buy a textbook or been given a free online pdf of a textbook by the instructor.

Honestly, the book wasn't very expensive considering all the tests and chapter reviews were from the same text book, used the same formating and were consistent. I knew what to expect each week. Having such a set structure was really valuable. 

That being said, the text book isn't anything special. Reading all online really sucks, but having the option to be read to allowed the course to be more accesable to various learning styles. I wouldn't mind moving away for this text book, as long as these are still obtainable (which I think it is). 

To me I just have to make sure that anything I am reading has to have a Audio book too just because it they best way that I can learn for myself, But I think I really like what you have going on right now.

I think that the online textbook was great for my situation. I don't have a printer, it was always readily available with the material, and while the $80 price tag was significant, buying it helped me more than hurt me. I think that free online materials will over complicate things and lead to a lot of mistakes. 

In my other class we purchases the textbook online and it was about $20 and then she had worksheets going along with the textbook that she made so that we learned that way. I like this better than having it all in one like MindTap

no because of the un constantly of the web 

I disagree with the idea of free textbooks from online resources. It sounds like it would be very complicated and the information might not be very good. I don't have a problem with money though, and I know some students do. But for me I disagree with this idea.

I disagree with this idea. I understand the desire to be cost effective, but there's a reason we pay for college. So unless the college is willing to "Loan" textbooks to students and provide them for the duration of the class like we had in high school then I think we should still continue paying for course materials. There are tons of ways to save money, like renting the textbook from amazon or websites, etc.... I personally prefer a physical book over reading online. So reading only online would not be ideal nor desirable for me. Printing materials also costs money, whether in paper and ink or paying a service to print things for you. So is it really cost effective or just replacing costs from one thing to another?  I have not taken a class that had only  free online materials. In all aspects I think that using only free online materials is a terrible idea. 

I would prefer not to do reading online. I look at a computer for 8 hours a day at work, and really don't want to come home and read on a computer for another 4 hours a day.

I have had many writing classes that do only OER and I think it works well, as long as the teacher links good and creditable sites 

yes i have, worked well

I just wanted to say that I enjoyed this class. History is and always has been my favorite subject, the only thing that I would change would be to make it in person, because I learn a lot better in person and hands on compared to through a computer screen, but obviously in this time that is not really possible. I cannot think of anything I would do to make the course better, I think that the course as a whole helped me learn a lot more about my favorite subjects like World War II and the Korean War, and it expanded the way I interpreted what happened during those times. If I had the option to take this course again, I definitely would. 

I think the survey was great

maybe allow us to turn in late work but we lose like 10 to 20 points off ?

I have no further questions or comments. I thoroughly enjoyed this course and I learned a lot. 

I think the class was great overall! Thank you!

I have no recommendations. I feel like this class would be very different in person and many would learn better, I have always done online classes so i can't say for sure