[TOS] Questionnaire after an open source course

[Ivaylo Ganchev]

Thank you for this Mel,

> And who you're gathering this data for, and why. Is this to give
> feedback to the instructors to improve the course for next round? To
> show the students what they have (collectively) learned? To tell the
> open source projects involved what happened from your side? In the hopes
> of getting departmental resources/approval for continuing experiments of
> this sort? Ideally, you'd have designed the instrument before running
> the intervention (teaching the class), but we don't live in an ideal
> world. :)

Mostly for us in order to improve the class for the next year. Students
will see the results of their colleagues during the presentations next
week. We will certainly give a feed-back to the projects and the "tutors"
on the project-side. We would like also to share our experience with other
universities. We organize an event next Thursday at the IRILL that will
search to gather different experiences in teaching FLOSS techniques in
universities (in French, sorry) :
http://www.irill.org/events/lsoc-logiciels-libres-et-enseignement-superieur.
Will tell you back how the event went. Our goal is to gather the best
practices, to elucidate the not so good ones and to try to create some
sort of a guide for teachers that would like to launch this king of
experience.

> All your current questions ask students for their perception. Perception
> is a tricky thing; we usually don't remember things correctly. Also, if
> you know your instructor is the one asking these questions, you're more
> likely to put what you think the "right" answer is ("oh yes, I learned a
> lot of valuable real-world skills...") which may not tell you very much.

Yes, indeed. In fact these are the chapters, each chapter has 5-10 more
precise and concrete questions. Will have to find the time to translate it
in English.

> What I'd be interested in hearing, personally: (Disclaimer - I am an
> education graduate student, not a professional instrument designer --
> although I do study with some and am trying to learn that.)
...

I take a note to all this.

Thanks a lot

Cheers,
Ivaylo