Seeking feedback from students reflects the optimistic ideology of people at work on the academy. I have been participating in the cryptoacademy from season one. I have participated in all the seasons of cryptoacademy . Infact , I have participated in contests organised by Steemitblog before commencement of academy courses. I was boosted to participate in all the seasons when I was declared as winner in I love Bitcoin contest hosted by Steemitblog. At that time , my repo was in 50s. Since than, I have worked very hard despite my busy schedule at work. I owe my all crypto knowledge to the Cryptoacademy.
What worked well with the Academy
All the professors have worked diligently to teach students various concepts related to crypto trading. I believe, Teaching means to learn twice . All the professors have worked very hard to touch diverse trading related topics. Some worth mentioning points are ;
Organisation of courses into three tiers is an adorable step that was introduced . The tier system promotes systematic learning as per the traders knowledge. By spending time in particular level, users are gradually polished up so as to have smooth transition into succeeding level.
Selection of topics within the tiers does coincide with the level of students. Topics are wisely choosen by professors to suit the level of students.
Fixed introductory courses that are set to no expiry is a wonderful initiative to carve the way into weekly courses. However, there is random topic selection there. So scope of improvement is there.
Level and grading based reward system does facilitate creation of quality content by users. Before the introduction of grading, tasks were randomly voted by curators and were therefore over burdened. But now, things are going smooth.
Multiple homework tasks within each level does promote learning alongside earning and propel students to work hard so as to participate in most of the tasks.
How you would improve the Academy ? What changes would you make for future seasons of the Academy?
I would make a proper structure of course within each level. it should be such that, students qualifying for intermediate levels are well verse with the basics in a properly structured manner unlike the mosaic pattern that was there.
I would not restrict entry or participation in any course but would bar qualification of higher level users for weakly rewards in lower level .
I would make club5050 optional with additional rewards for those who participat in it and also additional rewards for club75 and club100 users.
I would abandon the 150 SP rule and lower repo for advanced courses from 65 to 61.
To promote plagiarism free content, I would ban those students, for at least one week, who are found posting plagiarized content.
I would like to promote healthy interaction on posts of authors by mini votes to quality comments. People are busy posting content and do not take interaction with other authors seriously.
Number of posts that remain uncurated despite grading need to be reduced to bare minimum for the greater interests of the community.
What did you think of the marking scheme for Academy posts? And the rewards available?
Grading of homework tasks is a wonderful initiative to promote posting of quality content. Everyone likes to get good grades and rewards thereby. But there is no uniform scale of grading. Different professors use different criterias while marking the content. I would suggest to develop uniform criterias of marking. Suppose, a fixed five point scale is formed like Quality, originality, depth, complaince and structure. All the professors should make use of such a uniform criteria to grade the homework instead of following their customised way of marking. In this way, students will get familiarised with areas to focus on and would promote uniformity and avoid any confusion.
Secondly, some professors make use of question based marking scheme. The marks must be fixed at the time of posting homework by professor, so that students get to know the expectationa of professor and depth of analysis needed.
As for rewards are concerned, there is need to improve the percentage of votes from SC02. As steem is a volatile crypto like others, price keeps on fluctuating and therefore fixed rewards don't suffice always. It can understood by rewards on advanced posts in last 2 weeks of season 5. Moreover, when club5050 is mandatory, rewards aren't satisfactory.
Enjoy, Learning, Inspiration from academy.
I enjoyed the knowledge that I gained from Academy because it hastened and smoothed my journey into the trading. With basic kick from academy, I joined online trading course of stock maket to streamline the content and concepts. Honestly speaking, except orientation of course, I learned nothing more than what was being taught in academy and some specific stock related concept.