Education in Chemical Entrepreneurship - KIT - Technology ...

percent of the respondents would recommend the course to a colleague. Similarly,
after attendance of two course modules also the Chemistry Students’ Representation
(“Fachschaft Chemie der Studenten”, who represents students’ interests similar to
unions in firms) made the statement that they would recommend the course to
chemistry majors.
Figure 4: Assessing the Chemical Entrepreneurship course and the instructor.
On the other hand, it must be noted that attendees’ options for interactions with course
speakers were used little. The instructor’s offer to be available for any questions or
discussions directly after the lectures has been used rarely by students; also little use
was made of the option to address the instructor by e-mail. Hence, there was no
indication for the instructor that attendees desire a shift of role of the teacher, from
instructor to additionally tutor. Also after their lectures and their Q&A parts the
additional meetings with guest speakers (in a restaurant) were visited by only few,
usually advanced, course attendees. Currently, it is not clear whether the late ending
of the course (19:00) has influenced this behavior.
Runge and Bräse - 18 -