Tele-Assessment of the Tele-Taught University Degree in Computer Science Engineering

Since 2001 all courses of a 3-year university degree in computer science engineering at the University of Padova are being taught in 4 geographically distributed sites using real-time simultaneous teleteaching technologies. The aim of the system is to deliver academic lessons to geographically distributed classrooms, preserving as much as possible the way the teacher communicates and interacts with students in a traditional classroom. The focus is on the quality assessment survey submitted to both students and teaching staff at the end of the (last) 3rd period. Objectives of the survey are: to assess the effectiveness of the lessons delivered with teleteaching modality; to get indications on the perceived quality of the tele-teaching technology, of classrooms, laboratories and services in the remote sites. An on-line questionnaire has been designed and is currently submitted to all the teachers and all the students attending these courses in the 4 sites. The Moodle environment has been adopted to create online courses integrated with the above mentioned teleteaching platform. All aspects concerned in the question of the survey have been statistically analyzed, and results report grouping data by enrolment year, site and role of the answering have been disseminated through the web site.