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Hi all,<br>
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We received this today from Iain MacLaren who is a professor here in
the local University - NUI Galway.<br>
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I told him I could forward it on and asked him to go into a bit more
detail about the reason behind it.<br>
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"<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt">Thanks. It’s actually a fairly small
initiative linked to a wider report on creativity and education
which I’m preparing, the inputs from which will be discussed at
a European meeting in Berlin in November. The main point is to
touch base with makers and see if they have comments to make on
educational experiences, etc. The more respondents the better
really. I’ll be presenting it at a formal educational forum and
trying to raise their awareness of this type of activity, its
scale and the passionate commitment of those who participate as
part of a drive to start to rethink what we mean by education.
So by all means circulate.</span></font><font face="Calibri,
Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">"</span></font><br>
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So if you have the time to answer the survey, please do. If not,
then no worries =)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdNY2VWTUxCaVVGWGt6TFNTeHltV1E6MQ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHdNY2VWTUxCaVVGWGt6TFNTeHltV1E6MQ</a><br>
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I'm sending him Jarkko's survey results as I reckon they'd be handy
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/07/mapping-hackers-diy-community-survey-2012-results/">http://surveys.peerproduction.net/2012/07/mapping-hackers-diy-community-survey-2012-results/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
Padraic<br>
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I know, I know, I know. E-mail is full of 'please take just five
minutes of your time to complete our survey' type requests. It's
often a pain. Some are clearly a waste of time, but others might
be valuable to someone, might help a struggling researcher
complete their work or student get a qualification. Then when you
do decide to help out by completing the form, some of the
questions make you want to tear your hair out. 'No! That's a
stupid way to phrase it' or 'Well I don't fit any of those
categories'.
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<div>You know the feeling, I'm sure. The problem is what to do
when you actually do have a survey that you need others to fill
out? How can you persuade people to devote some of their
attention towards some tickboxes and, even worse, writing some
comments and suggestions? It's a tough one, because you
sympathise but you need the data! You really need the data,
because you are going to want to be able to make a difference to
some proposed education reforms, to help future learners and to
inform policy makers. What can you do? There's a deadline,
there's a group of people in Europe waiting to hear from you.
You need data!!</div>
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<div>So, you're stuck then to grovelling, to asking really kindly,
to hoping beyond hope that someone out there realizes that you
are genuine and that this is worthwhile and that it also helps
just to connect even for a few minutes with the wider community
out there. You understand, don't you? You want to help, I can
tell and I'm really grateful. You just click here.</div>
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survey form </a><br>
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<div>thanks</div>
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<div>iain</div>
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