Month: February 2023

Note: this summary was published on Jan 22 and reported again in this blog.

I have sent out the mid-course evaluation survey (Jan 3, 2023) to 120 graduate students. Until now, 18 responses have been received and the response rate is 15%. 83% of the respondents (n=15) agreed to have a mid-course evaluation. 61 % of the respondents (n=11) decided to keep the anonymity of the respondents in mid-course evaluation (WG4). A few elaborated on their responses as follows,

• Keep it anonymous: “I do not see the need to disclose a student’s name. This would be a barrier to participation. Perhaps make the disclosure optional, or not disclosed at all.”
• Don’t keep it anonymous: “I believe in providing open honest feedback with course instructors…Mid course evaluations should be standard practice in all RRU courses.”
• Need more study: “Students should be free to create ongoing evaluation records that are submitted either anonymously or not to a body that is sworn to serve the institution’s interests as outlined in documents reflecting purpose and mission.”

I am glad to have a meeting with Corbett Gildersleve, Executive Director of RRU Student Union. We have exchanged views on the role of student representatives and opportunities for collaboration (WG 3).

I chose to attend in person the Academic Council hybrid meeting today in Hatley Castle. I was glad to see that there was an agenda item on “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and RRU” in the Council meeting. To represent students’ viewpoints, I indicated my wish to join the task force on using AI in RRU (WG 4)