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Feedback Notes from Workshop Wrap-Up 7-21-11:

Pluses:

· Learning/using new tools/technologies for teaching and learning
· Many new skills for instructional design
· Integration with technology and teaching
· Team work and sharing ideas with different levels and perspectives
· Understanding backward design
· Spirit of cooperation
· Sharing experiences and skills amongst different faculty members, universities
· Find us among them (collegiality/friendship/family atmosphere)
· New strategies/approaches
· Trainers knowledgeable, friendly, and cooperative
· Rich and useful content
· Engagement from participants and enthusiasm from curriculum team
· Hands-on experiences
· Guidance and facilitation
· New insights into course management systems

Wishes:

· Hope next meeting to be outside Palestine
· More commitment and engagement from participants
· More collaboration on communicating our services (MERC) to others (workshop on PR/communication skills)
· MERC serve in building curriculum and enhancing learning and teaching in ALL Palestinian universities, just not the ones represented here
· Expand scale of MERC to impact for selecting other universities
· More concrete examples and models implemented with students, not just theory (description, procedure, process)
· Wish Palestine to be free and wall disappears
· Breakdown walls (virtually! And in reality)
· Have a certain criteria to help use which system and courses (evaluative process)
· Rubrics for selected tools, materials, curriculum
· More “virtual tools,” other technology tools with simulations
· Practice technical production
· Put theory into practice
· Visit other MERCs around the world & host someone with experience
· Closer ties/interaction with Columbia tech/IT

Feedback for Capacity Building Module 1