Survey about possible course re-org

The survey itself is here.  I ask that you take it seriously and give honest responses. We will discuss the results in class on Tuesday and make any decisions about how to address the issues that the survey results raise.

Here are the reasons for the survey:
1.  I am wearing out trying to keep track of the class, both because attendance has been spotty, and because some students have been erratic as to when they complete the work or if they complete the work at all.
     a.  While I've said attendance is not required, the issue is how students who miss class get caught up on what was said in class and indeed whether they are getting caught up or not.
2.   At the outset, I had expected that attendance would be better than it actually has been.  Had I more realistic expectations on that, I might have designed the class differently from the get go.
3.  The concept quizzes are new this year.  I've not done them before.  They seem to be successful in students accessing the PowerPoints.  However....
     a. The first real blog posts on student experience in organizations showed many students didn't understand the term transaction costs.  It pains me to see students post on something based on an erroneous assumption about the definition of a term.  Transactions costs are considered in some of those PowerPoints, including the one for today's class.
4.  On idealism caving into reality, if students are motivated in the course primarily based on the deliverables they are responsible for, the blog posts and the Excel homework being the main components of those deliverables, then they might prefer live class time to devoted to preparing them for that, rather than how we've been doing it now where the live class talks about the issues at a higher level or gives particular examples to illustrate the issues other than what the students will see in the homework.

I do believe student preference (suitably informed) should be an important factor in how a course is designed.  On the other hand, I think you have some bad habits based on how you've dealt with your other courses and I'd rather try to counter those than accommodate them.