Why, oh why do students keep asking me to fill out meaningless surveys about knowledge management?
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Why, oh why do students keep asking me to fill out meaningless surveys about knowledge management?
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...because they are in "KM classes" that tell them to gather "data." I have only been asked to respond to a handful, but not one has been usefully constructed. I usually give up halfway through after being asked to respond to something like "rate your electronic content management needs from 1 to 5."
Posted by JB | February 19, 2008 9:31 PM
Posted on February 19, 2008 21:31
(a) Because they don't see tham as meaningless and (b) because they consider your input to have enormous value!
It's a compliment!
Posted by Karyn Romeis | February 20, 2008 10:18 AM
Posted on February 20, 2008 10:18
two possible reasons:
a) you're an easy target,
b) they know you'll get upset
Posted by Aiden Choles | February 20, 2008 11:45 AM
Posted on February 20, 2008 11:45
I am with Karyn on this one. You have become an attractor, attracting interest from KM students. Take the time to tell them why the surveys are meaningless and you might just disrupt the pattern. These students are the future of KM so enable them to self-realise the error of their ways.
Oh, and of course their lecturers know that you will get upset.
Cheers, Ron
Posted by Ron Donaldson | February 20, 2008 4:02 PM
Posted on February 20, 2008 16:02
Ouch! I resemble that.
Because there's no one whose opinion on reimagining KM practice anyone on the globe would rather see.
(proof? http://cmcarmean.googlepages.com/K4-24TrNodes.jpg )
Any student that's figured this out is not totally clueless.
And yes, Aiden is right. Reading your posts when you're irked is priceless.
Posted by Colleen Carmean | February 20, 2008 5:35 PM
Posted on February 20, 2008 17:35
It is not just in KM; I have an uncompleted one sitting on my sofa just now; seems cruel to bin it but filling it in seems worse. A student I am supervising sent an email this morning saying how wonderful all the 'comments' in the comments field were. Maybe that was all he needed.......
Surveys are seen as respectable, 'scientific' and easy. They are certainly not easy. Nowadays they are clumsy if nothing else.
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/02/stop-sharing-spreadsheets-start.html
triggered the possibility of little and often surveys.
Posted by Brian Sherwood Jones | February 20, 2008 6:36 PM
Posted on February 20, 2008 18:36
Just say No, Dave. No more Mr. Nice Guy!
Posted by Nancy Mills | February 20, 2008 10:08 PM
Posted on February 20, 2008 22:08