On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 08:52:28AM -0400, Heidi Ellis wrote: > Hi Folks, > > As for using the text in the classroom, the timing of the completion of the > text didn't align with the typical undergraduate teaching schedule (not a > complaint, merely an observation :-) ). Because of the timing, I'm not sure > that there are any faculty members who have used the text throughout an > entire term. So we might not get complete feedback from classroom use.
Understood for certain. We should probably expand the thinking, anyway, and include *any* input, from either reading or using. > The good news is that I know that there are at least three faculty members > at three different institutions (and possibly more) who are planning on > using the text in the fall. So we might get better feedback after the fall > semester. > > Do we have a feedback mechanism for those who might want to comment on their > experiences? We don't, especially for taking individual comments from students. Should we cook something up? Or is it better for instructors to handle that and send results back to here? I reckon that a deep introspection on the textbook is not normal for classes :), yet this is a different, perhaps entirely new situation. Putting the onus back on the instructor seems like it might not work out as well. Perhaps they'd be willing to pass on a URL to a comment collection form? Is there a more standard method for collecting such feedback that we derive from? In Red Hat classes, the instructor hosts a feedback form locally that students use before they leave on the last day. Are people doing things like that in academics now? - Karsten, who is happy his college was in the photocopy, post-mimeograph era. -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41
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