On this page, you can view the appendices of the report for responses from participants as an embedded pdf as well as extracts from long answer open-ended questions, with my reflective response.

Analytic report of results from the Typeform survey

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Open-ended questions

Participants 1-7 – Question 3

What was your biggest takeaway from the workshop?

1. A clear understanding of how one align the objectives, activities/process and expected outcome and how students are engaged in also determining their learning and owning the process.
2. That process is critical and that collaborative engagement with students, where they define problems and collectively identify solutions, is important.
3. My biggest takeaway was the consideration of the many problems in teaching and not taking for granted that our students encounter some or all of these issues.
4. The understanding that Process is most important in teaching and learning, and it takes presidence over the finish project.
5. Creative crowding can be an effective and motivating way to get students to think and problem solve. It will get students to work together and help each other.
6. The fact that the PBL approach allowed for integration of multiple view points to arriving at an outcome.
7. The process of interactivity and the fact that this approach teaches students how to work in a real-world setting.

Reflection

This responsive is quite positive and encouraging as it bears evidence of my pedagogical questioning throughout all of the units especially unit 2-4, where as an educator and designer I wrestle with balance in my own practice and how students may be struggling to cope with the speed of change and expectations of social and academic experiences while learning. The participants highlight important issues for consideration for the next workshop and are in agreement to examine how process can be a defining factor in assessment criteria other than just the outcome. Another highlight, how being aware of student expectations and that it has as much to do with effective learning outcomes and acquisition of knowledge as with teaching. One participant used the title in her feedback which gives me the idea that the workshop could be further developed not just for teachers but as collaborative and co-designing activity workshops for students.

I would definately, based on my observations in the recorded sessions, outline, time and plan for an activity because of time constraints. I was not able to have the participants get together in groups to plan a PBL assignment.

Participants 1-7 – Question 4

What aspects of the workshop contributed most to your learning and development as a lecturer?

1. The use of questioning to stimulate student’s interest and how their interest is included in the and informs the process and outcome.
2. I was interested in the discussion of the strategies used to develop critical thinking.
3. It gave me a greater insight into the challenges involved and how we might, as a team, be able to improve on our teaching methods and process.
4. As mentioned above (The understanding that Process is most important in teaching and learning, and it takes presidence over the finish project.)
5. Learning about Problem Based Learning, and how I could incorporate it into my assignments.
6. The fact that we were able to share our views and see the workshop as a means of further integrating our separate courses in a deliberate way to facilitate further integration of the curriculum.

Reflection

Question 3 and 4 sounded similar, however I needed to tap into how the topic and content might have contributed to their development as a teacher. Again, positive responses from the participants who voiced their appreciation of the dialogue, opening up their thinking about relevance of content used in assignments, examination as faculty about our teaching approaches and methods of instruction. Exploring ways in which Problem-Based Learning can be used to re-frame complex assignments and projects especially those which are semester long (one participant commented), and lastly, the notion of integration across the curriculum.

Additional Feedback from HOD Applied Arts and Crafts Department

Thanks for sharing the link Sue. I wasn’t in yesterday. Quite interesting and informative.It does tackle much of what the business model competition is also about. Even though the BMC is about business ideas and pitching, it is about solving BIG PAIN, real life issues. It is about group workand dynamics, it is about iterations and validation of ideas outside  by real people. What you have presented begins the process of disruption and presents the way these millennias are forced to learn…these times call for this if they are to set themselves apart and above average.