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Instructor Online Teaching Survey

2021-01-22

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Consent to Participate in Research The Carpentries Online Workshops Survey for Instructors and Helpers

Introduction and Purpose My name is Erin Becker and I am the Associate Director of The Carpentries. Thank you for volunteering to take part in our research study, which is about understanding the experience of teaching Carpentries workshops online. To participate in the study, you will complete a survey about your experience planning and delivering an online Carpentries workshop. Depending on your location, the survey will be 34-37 questions long and will take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

Confidentiality Your responses will be recorded anonymously. We are collecting and processing personal data collected with this form in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Risks and Benefits There are no direct risks or benefits to you from filling out this survey, and no compensation. We hope to use these results to improve workshops for future learners and to improve the online teaching experience for instructors.

Consent You are not required to take this survey to participate in our programs. You may quit the survey at any time or skip any item other than those required to correctly sort your responses.

If you have any questions about the study, please contact Erin Becker, Associate Director of The Carpentries at ebecker@carpentries.org or eribecker@ucdavis.edu or Megan Welsh, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California, Davis at megwelsh@ucdavis.edu.

If you have any questions about your rights or treatment as a research participant in this study or would like to provide input about this research, please contact the University of California at Davis’ Institutional Review Board (IRB) at (916) 703-9151, IRBAdmin@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu, or 2921 Stockton Blvd, Suite 1400, Room 1429, Sacramento, CA 95817.

Do you consent to participating in this survey? *

Are you 18 years of age or above? *

If you have participated in more than one online workshop, please choose one that you would like to report on, and answering the following questions based on that experience. (Please fill out this form again if you would like to report on an additional workshop.)

In what year was your workshop taught?

In what month was your workshop taught?

What type of workshop are you reporting on?

What role did you play in the workshop?

Questions About the Role of Supporting Instructor The Supporting Instructor role is intended for Instructors with less practice teaching Carpentries curricula to offer experience with online workshops. It also ensures that the instructional team consists of several Carpentries-trained participants. The Supporting Instructor role will be assigned to certified Carpentries Instructors who have taught less than three workshops.

If you are familiar with the role of supporting instructor (either because you have served in that role or because you have taught alongside a supporting instructor), how useful do you find that role?
Not at all useful Extremely useful
1 2 3 4 5 6

Please share any thoughts you have on the role of supporting instructor.

(long text answer)

Are you a certified Carpentries Instructor?

How many Instructors/Co-Instructors/Supporting Instructors did your workshop have?

(number answer)

How many Helpers did your workshop have?

(number answer)

Approximately how many learners did your workshop have ?

(number answer)

Please list three things that you felt went well in this workshop.

(long text answer)

Please list three ways this workshop could have been improved.

(long text answer)

Why did you choose to participate in an online Carpentries workshop?

How was your experience participating in this workshop?

If you had the opportunity, would you want to serve as an Instructor in an online Carpentries workshop in the future?

What video conferencing platform did you use?

What was the name of the service provided by your institution?

(short text answer)

What chat platform(s) did you use to communicate with learners?

What chat platform(s) did you use to communicate with Instructors and Helpers?

How many of your learners used a cloud platform (e.g., RStudio Server, MyBinder, AWS) to access the software and data for the workshop?

What schedule did you use for the workshop?

Which of the following would you keep the same if you taught online in the future?

Tell us about any items from the question above that you would prefer to change if you taught online in the future.

(long text answer)

How was your workshop negatively impacted by internet connectivity issues?

Are you aware of any accessibility issues (beyond internet connectivity) that affected anyone’s ability to participate in this workshop?

Please describe any accessibility issues that you had.

(long text answer)

How prepared did you feel to teach this online workshop?

Resources for Preparing to Teach Online. (Please skip the question for any resources that you did not use)

How helpful was the Recommendations for Teaching Carpentries Workshops Online Document?
Extremely Unhelpful Extremely Helpful
1 2 3 4 5 6

How helpful was attending a Carpentries Pre/Post Workshop Community Discussion?
Extremely Unhelpful Extremely Helpful
1 2 3 4 5 6

How helpful was advice from other Carpentries Instructors on Slack, TopicBox, Twitter, etc.?
Extremely Unhelpful Extremely Helpful
1 2 3 4 5 6

Are there other resources you found helpful in preparing to teach online? What were they?

(short text answer)

What do you wish you had known before teaching online?

(long text answer)

Please rate how easy or difficult you found carrying out the following components online?

Planning
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Setup
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Live coding demonstrations
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Lecture
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Discussion
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Exercises
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Administrative (e.g., tracking attendance)
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Answering questions
Easy Difficult
1 2 3 4 5 6

Do you feel the workshop curriculum that you taught needs to be modified to improve teaching online?

Please explain.

(long text answer)

How many Carpentries workshops have you taught?

How many online Carpentries workshops have you taught?

Do you have previous experience teaching online beyond The Carpentries?

What country are you located in?

Is there anything else you want to tell us?

(long text answer)

Thank you screen

Thank you for sharing your experience with us!

These surveys will help us to improve our online training recommendations.

If you haven’t already done so, please consider sharing your experience with other Instructors preparing to teach by attending a community discussion meeting! You can see when community discussions are happening and sign up to attend here.