Please record your views and feelings on the conference - newest comments at the top

 

Email feedback and snippets of conversation

 

I have enjoyed looking at the Wiki (or the parts of it that I have managed to see so far) and will continue to monitor it. Obviously this was a very successful event. You must be very pleased and relieved! With thanks to you and the team for all the effort that you put into it. Another step in putting Surrey on the Learning and Teaching map [Surrey senior manager]

 

THANK YOU for an excellent conference. This is one of those very rare occasions when I can say I enjoyed all 3 days. I've learned new things and I've come away enthused and stimulated. My only complaint is that there was so much going on, I missed things I wanted to go to or didn't have enough time to spend on things as I would have liked. So from my point of view it was a total success. 

 

 

It was great to get a cohesive sense of the way that we [Surrey] work with the other CETLs. I was able to make lots of connections and cross-reference ideas because of that wider community. It gave me a chance to break away from what Registry sometimes makes us think we should be doing.

 

Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed my brief time at the conference.  And the fact there were spaces and appreciation of the aesthetic dimension of learning and enquiry. I thoroughly enjoyed the engagement and curiosity with participants within my own workshop.....and  I had a moment of bliss this morning sitting listening to the piano and choosing to take the time and space from little time I had at Surrey.  I applaud your courage and creativity to include such items. They are very close to my heart and way of working and I feel that there is so much on offer to business, academia and enquiry from the nonverbal , ineffable realms.  I thank you very very much for all your work and committment and vision! ( and yes I did also had in official evaluation form)

 

Just a brief email to say that I really enjoyed giving the workshop for the conference.  I don’t know if you had any feedback on it, but I was pleased with how it went and everyone seemed to enjoy conducting their own appreciative inquiry.

 

Hi there Just to say thanks for a great time in Surrey this week – sorry I wasn’t on top form because of my stinker of a cold – I really got a lot out of the event and came away with some ideas that I hope to work on and try and implement over the coming year, particularly in relation to the student intern programme. Hope you guys are all taking a well-earned recovery period, and that I’ll see you again soon

 

My thanks to you and your team for all the hard work put into organising the Sceptre conference.  I was glad to have an opportunity to present my work and was very pleased indeed to hear David Hays at one of the master classes.It was a complicated conference to run and it went (or appeared to go) very smoothly.So thank you very much

 

The conference, another first for me. Was inspiring, full of thought provoking ideas.  It was wonderful to hear what others are doing and to realise how this fits into the work I've been doing with the students.  I've returned to NTU full of ideas of how I can continue to challenge both myself and the students through EBL.

 

Sincere congratulations on a really great conference. It was enjoyable, instructive, developmental and different.. and it had heart!!!

 

I am writing to thank you for an inspiring conference at Surrey University last week. I have since been to the HEA conference and the European Conference on Research Methods for Business and Management. These were all goo in one way and another but I really came away from the LTEA gathering buzzing with ideas. So thank you and your team for hosting, facilitating and organising the event.

 

It was, after a quite boring start, a great conference and I came home with millions of ideas. So thank you very much for the tip, I really enjoyed it and I certainly will be able to add one or the other tipp into my courses.

 

 

Organisation and facilities - the questions we asked on the feedback form

see attached word document (below) for the collected responses

 

1. Please tell us how useful you found the joining instructions, on a scale of 1-5 where 1 is not useful and 5 is invaluable.

Whatever your rating, please tell us anything you particularly appreciated or what we could have done to improve this.

 

2. Please tell us how you feel about the contents of the conference pack, on the same 1-5 scale

Whatever your rating, please tell us anything that was particularly valuable and how we can improve the conference pack at future conferences.

 

3. How do you rate the conference structure (the two 24-hour events) and the timetable of events - on a scale of 1-5 where 1 is unsatisfactory and 5 is fabulous?

Please give some explanation for your rating, to inform planning of future conferences.

 

4. Please rate the conference facilities as a whole, taking account of working spaces, accommodation, catering, equipment and so on - as before, 1 would be awful and 5 would be unimpeachable.

If you have time to be more specific, this would really help - tell us what you liked and what you didn't like, or what you might have wished for and didn't find.

 

Conference organisation written comments.doc

 

 

Content and process : comments taken from feedback forms

 

How useful has this conference be in promoting discussion and progressing thinking about how higher education might prepare students that this sort of complexity?

·         Very good at getting us to think outside the box

·         Very - also and also reassuring the other colleagues are addressing and managing similar challenges  

·         Good discussions and sessions and conference dinner

·         Lots of cross-fertilisation across discipline and level of education  

·         Very

·         Hmmmm! I took from it. It is less about students xxxxxx and more about my own development.

·         Fairly – on a scale wanted temporal be about six.

·         I loved the risks that had been taken in including unusual musical experiential workshops and not the dole scholarly approach

·         I enjoyed the breadth of cross sector and cross discipline experience

·         Excellent – there were several concepts and will take back to discuss with colleagues

·         Not sure exactly book think it has promoted much thought

·         Very useful and enjoyable

·         Would be good to have a session on basic facilitation

·         Stimulated different ways of teaching, discussing, thinking and reflecting

·         Useful

·         It has raised some interesting questions will need to explore and investigate and hopefully passing on that inquiring mindset to my students.

·         Preparation? Sure the experience of students in page , she is experience of what the complexity is? This is not a rehearsal it is real, authentic, actual.

·         Enormously. As a virgin to this approach to teaching. I feel inspired by the option to share my thoughts with others.

·         I need time to reflect on this.  

 

What new ideas, perspectives, practices are you taking away with you?

What have been the most useful aspects of the conference?

·         Cross disciplinary and cross sector approaches , and ideas that transfer to bridge across different disciplines

·         Interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange explore further notion of the whole student as a learner

·         Students identities.

·         Immersive approaches to learning.

·         The spectrum of EBL from immersive learning to bite sized EBL

·         The brilliant walls are writing.

·          Somewhere in my institution.

·         The use of which is more into the use of these to overcome the techno phobia.

·         The need to provide support , but with increasing freedom and space to express and think.

·         The need to inject creativity into my facilitation.

·         Knowing that there is now at a large and growing number of academics involved and interested in EBL

·          Getting to share is very important.

·         Always the conversations above below and surrounding the main events.

·         All of it is new to me saw lots of thoughts are milling around in my head-yet to be focused down to one or two key issues. But I think I’ll use it as a tool and pass it on to other lecturers.

·         Use of student sabbatical officer , and student in terms as driver enabler of transformation

·         The fact that speakers were trying creative means of tackling complexity.

·         Ways of opening insights that shortcuts , the linear textbased reading , writing research based approach.

·         Very impressed with electronic voting possibilities. have also picked up very useful blocking tips to feed into my blocking projects at work.

·         Very interesting sessions. I like the interaction, nice to be able to participate.

·         Great to meet a large variety of people from across a range of disciplines.

·         Inspiring and thought provoking.

·         Cross-fertilisation brilliant , we need more this.

·         Fantastic networking opportunity.

·         Using visualizations and images more.

·         Stimulated need and desire to learn more about different approaches and look at other disciplines more.

·         It confirmed my values and how to transform lecturers and lecture spaces.

·         The focus group discussions have been interesting.

·         The use a very creative designs out let’s and new ways of examining and exploring my life is one major idea I am going to Sheffield with.

·         Manageable size , accessible organizers and helpful people across the conference. Thank you

·         Sharing ideas and practice with others is invaluable , especially through multi disciplines.

·         Made me think about a range of other options , which I want to offer to students.

·         Making connections with others.

  

Master class sessions

 

Please add further comments.

 

Feedback forms

Master Class feedback Forms for 6 Classes.xls

 

Written comments

Master Classes - Written Comments.doc 

 

 

Question: What were the most important things you gained from the sessions

1.Cultural Diversity – learning styles and learning processes may differ for – e.g. Chinese students. Research areas of brain used – would like to read papers. –Thinking about cultural diversity amongst those in clad d the impact of our person culture on our L & T WIKI – It’s easier than you feared!! – Opportunity to continue accessing and using WIKI for 6months.

2.Knowledge/experience/questions!

3.Having three hours was excellent and the groups of people brought richness themselves that was unprecedented in my experience.

4.space for discussion

5.The chance to discuss my research with supportive peers.

6.Confirmation of ideas and impetus to experiment

7.Insight into teaching (reassurance – importance of improvisation and re-establishing the true interactive facilitating nature of teaching) and into ways of assessing learning through concept mapping.

8.Contacts with other participants.

9.Knowledge and understanding about concept mappin

10.Techniques to use myself.

11.Ideas for teaching and research. Developing teaching. Topics to research

12.Gained new ideas, such as how different cultures are learning.   Gained motivation to try new things in my teaching.

13.Concept mapping will be most effective; in the understanding and development of projects also in peer training.

14.Creative problem solving: Some clear techniques for approaching a task problem in the group setting. Cultural Diversity: An overview of a project which allowed students to explore their own cultural identity by looking at another culture. An explanation of some of the theories which highlight different cultural learning patterns.

15.Concept Mapping – Considerably improved understanding of concept mapping and the stimulus to think.

16.Sharing the enthusiasm and energy of a really interesting researcher and practitioner in the field.

17.Enormous amount of stimulation – both conceptual/theoretical and practical – concrete ideas to take back and build on.

18.The need sometimes to intervene in order to stop lengthy presentations and get some more interaction and involvement.

19.Useful techniques

20.I was able to take on a concept and try to apply it in my field. I accept that not all techniques will work for everyone, or in every situation, so I don’t feel, for example that I can give a science lecture with no preparation, (which is what was suggested) but really found some of the ‘interaction’ ideas and active learning ideas quite useful.

21.An enthusiasm boost.   New ideas, ‘Time out’ to think about ‘how’, ‘process’, ‘my experiences’ ‘myself’ etc.

22.Wonderful to be a learner – space to play and explore, very liberating from being a teacher and expert all the time!   Has broadened and refreshed my ideas and perspective on several different levels.

23.How to make transparent and visible the ‘working’ of learning.

24.Ideas for ways of doing things. Being out of my comfort zone in terms of understanding. Some ideas for addressing a key issue back at the ranch.

25.Made me question own knowledge, teaching approaches and practices – in an explorative and encouraging way! New techniques to apply.

26.Some Excellent ideas and opportunities for reflection on practice.

27.A sense of facilitation in two very different genres of communication – technical, and face-to-face.   I gained some confidence in the value of my own previous experiences and reinforced my desire to be a collaborative, enquiry-led practitioner.

28.Possibilities in context rather than simply overview.

29.The chance (the time) to think – to relate and connect my own ideas (how I’ve done and thought about things – how I do them now and how I will do them) and experience with what I heard. Really it afforded me the opportunity to reflect and do a personal audit. 

30.Nothing for A (Collaborative Enquiry). A great deal from David Hay – use of concept maps to make students aware of their own knowledge before, during and after sessions.

 

 

 

 

 

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