Instructors comments

We seek comments from instructors who have used the Inspire system in their courses. They are very much appreciated!

Donna Katen-Bahensky, Director and CEO, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

"Now that the 2003 academic year has come to a close, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your support of the University of Iowa Department of Health Management and Policy Capstone Course. As the lead faculty member charged with coordianting the course curriculum, I am personally garteful for your time and many efforts to make INSPIRE negotiation system available to oiur graduate students.
   We used the last class session to elicit feedback from the students on their Capstone experience, As in the past, the student responses to the negotiation sessions were overwhelmingly positive, with many students acknowledging the unique opportunity for learning through the INSPIRE exercise.
   Along with the entire Iowa Graduate Program, I thank you for providing such an exceptional experience to our students andf for your part in making the Iowa Capstone course so successful over the years." ( May 29, 2003 )

Rainer Thormann, Chemnitz Technical University

"I am writing to you with reference to INSPIRE and INSS which we use as a regular project in our ESP courses on negotiations.  I would like to tell you that I was fascinated when I first visited your web site in autumn last year because what you offer is exactly what I had been looking for a long time. After having tried to start a negotiation myself (the first two attempts of which failed and you replied to my request once) I immediately incorporated a web-based negotiation via INSPIRE as a compulsory element into our course programme. So, in January, the first 15 students from '@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de' successfully completed their negotiations and enjoyed it very much. The feedback I received from them was unanimously positive. All of them said that it had been very helpful and that they had managed to improve their negotiating skills. Quite a number of them will keep using INSPIRE in the future on a more private basis. And this was just the first lot. What they, including myself , found very important was the opportunity of negotiating in an intercultural context which they are not able to do in the practically culturally-homogeneous groups of learners at our institution." ( April 1999 )

Robert B. McKersie, Society of Sloan Fellows Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT

"Gregory, I want to thank you and your team for the great opportunity afforded my students this past semester to use the INSPIRE exercise to experience Internet negotiations. While a few did not reach agreement for various reasons (actually a smaller proportion than last semester), the majority of the class found the exercise very worthwhile. You are to be congratulated for the valuable service that you provide." ( May 1999 )

Eric T. Crowell, President and CEO, Trinity Regional Health System, Iowa

"Just a short note to say thank you for your time. We really appreciate the help and support you showed our graduate students. Although I'm pretty sure they have no idea of the time spent behind the scene to make it happen - both the hours that you have put into the Inter-Neg project and the input of our case -, I believe they were appreciative of the opportunity to explore the basic concepts of managed care and hospital negotiations with the support of the INSPIRE system." ( April 1999 )

Robert B. McKersie, Society of Sloan Fellows Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT

"I have been a member of the teaching team headed by Gordon Kaufman for the negotiation course that was offered this past semester. We want to thank you for the excellent resource that inspire provides to students studying negotiations.  By the way, I have taken advantage of Inspire for my own courses over the past two years and would like to do so again this coming spring semester." ( December 1998 )

Thank you!