Thank you everyone for sharing your feedback about the event with us (❤️ 57 people! ). It was overwhelmingly positive and useful. We had a really great time organising this event, and it was lovely to see that all of you (especially the online participants) also had a great time. We especially appreciate your answers to opened text questions.
Below are some cute graphs that Pawel has made
We all have taken part in a huge number of online events over the last few years, right? But somehow, especially at the hybrid events, being there online did feel a bit unfulfilling. That’s why we did our best to make the online experience as good as being there in person. (In some instances being online was even better: only online participants could partake in the zoom chat and had immediate access to all the links ⭐️ ). That’s why we were super happy to see that the satisfaction scores for online participants was as high as for in-person ones. This was not an accident, but rather effect of a lot of thinking and effort from Dr Charlotte Desvages who was our ‘online envoy‘ spending the event in the corner of the room with earphones on, and her small team of helpers.
Graph showing satisfaction scores for online and inperson participants for each part of the event. Majority of answers were “somewhat satisfied” and “Very satisfied” both for online and in-person participants.
You realised how excited we all were about pair programming and other types of structured group work, as means of learning together. The second graph shows the proportion of participants who had experience of pair programming before, and who would like to use it in their classes after experiencing it during the event.
At least some of the hybrid events that we will run this year will be practical coding sessions during which you will be able to experience pair-programming again. As all events, those will be open to your colleagues, teaching-assistants and anyone else!
As you can see on the graphs, dramatic majority of us would like to try it in the classroom. Which is a beginning of a beautiful adventure!
Graph showing that while most participants never experienced pair programming before, their intension to use it in teaching after the event was ‘somewhat likely’, or ‘very likely’
Let’s Do this!
Thanks again, and see you at the events this year.
Pawel, Kasia, Charlotte, Brittany, Bea, Umberto, Sophie, Ozan, Serveh, John, Chris, Clare and the rest of the https://pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/ team