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An issues-only repository for overarching management of BSSw tutorial development and presentation
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Eliciting more info from/about our students #46

Open bernhold opened 2 years ago

bernhold commented 2 years ago

We'd like to know more about the people attending our tutorials. Partly so that we can develop statistical information about our audience and track trends and changes. Partly so that we can better engage them during the actual tutorials. For online tutorials, inviting people to introduce themselves in chat gets a limited response. In person, people may be a little more forthcoming, verbally (harder to hide?) but that doesn't give us any hard data for the future.

One idea is to formulate a small survey that gives us information we want, and build in a few minutes (after they have a chance to fill out the survey) to report back to the audience about the aggregated survey results. Will that get any better response than inviting comments in chat? Will this really help us engage the students? Can we make the survey short enough that it isn't burdensome, but give us useful information for immediate engagement and longer-term planning and reporting?

Are there other ideas?

bernhold commented 2 years ago

Alternative ideas: maybe we really just need an "icebreaker" exercise to engage students more? Or something more interactive up front?

jarrah42 commented 2 years ago

I would suggest a simple survey that we can include a link to on the final slide. This could be used in conjunction with the conference survey, or instead of if they don't provide one.