{"id":1071,"date":"2021-05-31T20:44:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2024-09-15T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:03:08","slug":"course-evaluations-did-not-disappoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/course-evaluations-did-not-disappoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Evaluations did not disappoint"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/bhide.net\/index.php\/productive-knowledge\/lessons-from-transformational-medical-advances\/\">course on medical innovations<\/a> I developed and\u00a0 just taught at HBS started disastrously.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Fortunately, miraculously, by the end of the term, I thought it was the most substantive course I had ever taught, but it was far from the smoothest and I was on tenterhooks about what the student evaluations would say.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>They <a href=\"bhide.net\/syllabus\/Bhide_LTMA_21_evaluations.pdf\">did not disappoint.<\/a> I have never received so much feedback about case quality. That to me was also the biggest unknown (I believe that after 30+ years I\u2019m now an adequate teacher): could really dense, technical\/historical cases with no protagonist &#8220;work&#8221; in an HBS class? Fortunately, the answer at least for students who chose to stick with the course seems to be yes \u2013 though a lot of work remains to realize the potential.<\/p>\r\n<p>But where?<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s a pity that after investing heavily in the offbeat experiment, HBS can\u2019t\/won\u2019t see a way to continue it. Anticipating just this, I had started talking to places where there might be a better fit for the course even before I started teaching it. I hope the evaluations help, and as Mr. Micawber said, something is bound to show up!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new course on medical innovations I developed and\u00a0 just taught at HBS started disastrously. Fortunately, miraculously, by the end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-blog","category-transformational-innovations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhide.net\/wordpress_files\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}