Promoting Responsible Pesticide Use

Evaluation Report

 

Number of Respondents 5
How did you most commonly access this course ?

Company (office) LAN = 2
Internet Cafe = 1
Home (dialup) = 2
Hours you required per week to complete all lessons range = 5-10

average = 7

Minimum time per week participants should expect to spend on this course range = 4-10

average = 6.6

   
Course Content - Quality and Usefulness
 

The most vital information required in order to make improvements in this course include your assessments of the Quality of the content of the various lessons as well as the Usefulness of the information they contain.  Quality is judged based primarily on the accuracy and completeness of the information.  Usefulness is judged based on the relevance and importance of the information to you in your work. 

   
 

Quality

  

Usefulness
 Lessons
 		  
Module 1. Background Concepts 3 2 2 3

What is a pesticide

 2 3 2 3

Health risks

 2 1 2 2 2 1

Evironmental risks

 2 1 2 2 1 2

FAO code of conduct

 2 2 1 2 1 1 1
 
Module 2. A Basic Approach to Responsible Use of Pesticides 2 3 2 3

Apply IPM as the first choice

3 1 1 2 2 1

Read, understand and obey the pesticide label

 1 4 2 2 1

Only use pesticide for which the proper PPE is available and use the properly

 3 2 2 3

Handle, mix and apply according to the label instructions

 3 2 2 2 1

Know poisoning symptoms and first aid procedures

 4 1 3 2

Observe recommended withholding periods to ensure that the harvested crops meet MRL

2 3 2 3

Follow recommendations when transporting, storing, disposing of pesticides and cleaning up pesticides spills

 3 2 2 2 1
 
Module 3. Promoting Responsible Use Among Farming Communities 2 2 1 2 1 2

Designing change programs

 4 1 3 1 1
   

Are there any additional topics you feel we should add to this course?

  • (1)Pesticide markets around the world (2)Trends in development of new pesticides

  • I this course is already had a complete topic related to pesticide matter.
  • No there are
  • no

Any specific comments or recommendations on how to improve Module 1?

  • It is done very well. No specific comments on how to improve it further.

  • To improve the module I optimally or sustainability, we should do a deeply research especially on effect to human.
  • Specifically on environmental risk
  • Generally Ok

Any specific comments or recommendations on how to improve Module 2?

  • To improve the module II, it is great if there is a guarantee on pesticide used, include on its effect. The pesticide company should can answer any of pestide problem that issued by all participants.

  • Need to involved all stakeholders that related or have responsibility on pesticide, include its effect
  • ok

Any specific comments or recommendations on how to improve Module 3?.

  • The needs to improve Module III are cooperation between all related parties.

  • Module III is a difficult one to improve. I suggest more case studies of successful transformations of farming communities and how it was attained would assit design change programmes that will be effective.
   

Interactions - Quality and Usefulness

 

We firmly believe that it is through interactions that real learning takes place.  This course uses a number of mechanisms to encourage interactions.  Interactions between participants and the content, interactions among participants and interactions between the facilitators and the participants.  We are, therefore very interested in hearing your assessments of both the quality and usefulness of the various forms of interaction. 

   
 

Quality

  

Usefulness

Interaction Mechanism

 

  
Discussion forums 2 2   1 2 3
Send email function 5     5  
Assignments 4 1 3 2
   

Facilitators

 

We believe that the key to success of any educational activity is the skill and commitment of the facilitators.  Your assessment of their qualities can provide valuable feedback on how to do the job better.  Below we have listed several important factors that define a good and effective facilitator. 

   
 

 Qualities
 
Knowledge of subject area 3 2    
Ability to communicate clearly and effectively 4 1    
Uses personal and professional examples to stimulate discussion 3 2    
Interacts on a regular, timely basis 4 1    
Skill in keeping the class motivated 4 1    
Works with lurkers 2 2    
Responds to student questions in a timely and consistent manner 3 2    
Monitors student learning groups and encourages collaboration 2 3    
Overall rating of the facilitators 3 3    
         
   
Additional comments regarding the course facilitators.
  • Facilitators have gone through the assignments submitted very critically and gave very meaningful and useful suggestions, which made the learning further more valuable. The facilitators encouraged the learning process through emailing their comments to everyone, and sometimes summarizing the issues very aptly. Thanks a lot for the time the facilitators spared to go through all the assignments of all the trainees and provide very useful suggestions.
   
Course Functionality
   
 

 
Features
 
Ease of use for submitting assignments 4 1    
Ease of use for posting messages to discussion boards 4 1    
Ease of use for sending emails 4 1    
Ease of navigation 3 2    
Appearance (user interface) 3 2    
Compatibility with your computer and networking setup 4 1    
Reliability (i.e. bug free) 2 3    
         
   

General

In addition to content and facilitation there are several other factors that contribute to the overall quality of an online course.  Below we have listed some of the most important. 

   
 

 

Additional factors
 
Course structure 3 2    
Ease of access under your circumstances 3 2    
Duration of the course 3 2    
Time required to complete all exercises 3 1 1  
Difficulty of exercises 2 2 1  
Reading level of lessons   5    
Amount of fun 1 3 1  
Overall rating of the course 4 1    
         
   
Do you feel that there is a need and/or demand for training on Promoting Responsible Pesticide Use among your colleagues? YES = 5     NO = 0
Do you think online learning is an appropriate way to provide this training for your colleagues? YES = 5     NO = 0
Would you be interested in participating in another online APRTC course? YES = 5     NO = 0
Do you think US$225 is a reasonable amount to charge for this course? YES = 5     NO = 0
 
What do you like best in this course?
  • * Interactiveness* Vastly informative* Share and learn approach
  • The availability of various reference materials for reading and learning. I like the challenge of being prompted to read in order to satisfy the questions given in the assignments
  • I can submit my ideas in international media communication
  • Have opportunity to interaction with another expert from every country that participated in this course. Also, I have opportunity to hear their problem that depend on their situation in their country.
  • The fact that you can learn what is happening in agricultural settings of other countries.

What do you like least in this course?

  • * Absence of voice chat or voice conference* Inability to discuss with the faculty and other participants in person
  • Downloading of various reference materials
  • A little time to finish all Assignment
  • The fact the people I inetract with are from areas that have very little in common to mine. I would have oved to have students from the Southern Africa Region from which I wpuld benefit a lot from common experiences.

Please give us any specific comments or recommendations on how this course could be improved?

  • The course is very well structured and presented, and nicely dealt with. There is good opportunity for learning for the interested participants.
  • Increase the number of assignments because there are lots of topics to consider.
  • Should need more participants, to know more issues in all country
  • Involving more expert from different country
  • The course should encourage more African students to apply and participate