ELEC-A4930 - Astronomical View of the World, Lecture, 10.1.2023-18.4.2023

Topic outline

• Learning Diaries
  All participants write a learning diary throughout the course.

  The learning diary is submitted for assessment and feedback four times during the course. Each "learning diary assignment", listed below, has its own deadline. All four entries are required for completion of the course.

  After the first learning diary, the last three are also read and assessed by other students, who also give feedback to the author. This way, each student gets many times more feedback and comments than they would get if only teachers read their diary. More importantly, the students, reading others' reflection and thoughts, have access to several different ways of approaching and thinking about the course topics. Instead of just hearing the teachers' perspective, they get to see things from several different points of view. Finally, they get experience in giving constructive feedback.

  In addition to the actual assignments, instructions and further materials about the learning diaries will be available on this page.

  
  

  Note regarding the format: PDF only
  

  Write the learning diary on your computer using a word processor of you choosing, and only submit the final version of the learning diary.
  

  
  

  The accepted formats for the submission are online text (i.e. copy-paste text from the word-processor to the text box), or filetypes TXT, RTF, and PDF.

  If your learning diary contains pictures, then the safest thing is to convert it to PDF. Most word processing software has the option to "save as PDF", "export to PDF", "convert to PDF", etc., and there are also free online converters (e.g. here).
  

  Do not submit Word or iWork Pages documents, because the reader may not be able to open them.

  
  

  Deadlines

  1. learning diary deadline: Tuesday 31.1. at 14:15
     
  2. learning diary deadline: Tuesday 28.2. at 14:15; peer-assessment deadline: Tuesday 7.3. 14.3. at 14:15 
     
  3. learning diary deadline: Tuesday 21.3. at 14:15; peer-assessment deadline: Tuesday 28.3. at 14:15
     
  4. learning diary deadline: Friday 14.4. at 14:15; peer-assessment deadline: Tuesday 25.4. at 14:15
     (Notice extended deadlines due to Easter weekend)

  
  

  After the learning diary submission deadline, the submitted learning diaries are automatically sent for assessment, and it is not possible to add late learning diaries to the workflow. Thus: set your own deadline at least a day or two earlier. We want to emphasise this: the LD deadlines are hard deadlines. Any learning diary submitted after this deadline will not be included in the peer-assessment and, thus, cannot get any points. In other words, missing the deadline will mean grade 0 for the learning diary part. If you know you will be late and have a good reason for that, contact the teachers (joni.tammi@aalto.fi) as early as possible.
  

  For the learning diaries 2-4 the students have one week (until next lecture) for peer assessment. Each students reads, grades, and gives feedback to four learning diaries. Depending on the quality of the feedback, peer-assessment makes up to two points toward the final score/grade.
  

  The links for submitting and assessing learning diaries open one week before the deadline.
  

  • Instructions

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    How to write learning diaries Page

    Mark as done
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    Learning diary assessment rubric Page

    Mark as done
  • Learning diary tasks
    

    Below you will find the submission boxes for the learning diaries. (Available one week before the submission deadline.)
    

    
    

    The first learning diary is assessed and commented by the teachers. The last three are peer-assessed and commented by students. Instructions for this is given in the Evaluation session 1.
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    AVotW Learning Diary 1 Assignment

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student
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    AVotW Learning Diary 2 Workshop

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student
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    AVotW Learning Diary 3 Workshop

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student
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    AVotW Learning Diary 4 Workshop

    Not available unless: You are a(n) Student