PROLEARN final review February 28, 2008
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , add a commenttime is running really fast. I am sitting here today with a bunch of colleges that I have been “glued” together in the last 4 years via a Network of Excellence called PROLEARN.
It is the final review. So in two days (yesterday and today) we are running through hundreds and hundreds of slides, we postpone the interesting discussions usually to a later point in time and then we run out of time and so on.
This is the way these reviews are usually done. Five external experts plus one representative from the European Commission have been reading through hundreds and hundreds of pages of “Deliverables” before coming to this event. The more than 30 people from our research network sitting around in this room have produced these documents during the last year. Then, as said, we present this work again in slideshows that are always too long and our attention level goes down (at least mine does) and when we arrive at the really interesting discussions we are postponing them.
So is there another way of doing this?
Some thoughts: what about reviewers sending their main questions and concerns in advance to the consortium and then we could address those and go earlier into the discussions? Reviews are about bringing constructive criticism to the network/project. So I think that we should arrange these reviews more in a discussion like manner. Less presentations, more interaction with the reviewers and a more constructive discourse. Just as we are talking about new pedagogical approaches in TEL we should consider new approaches to reviews. Moving away from this old-fashioned “exam” situation we should think of ways to implement “review 2.0″.
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