Pros
- Incredibly diverse cohorts with participants from varied professional backgrounds (law, tech, education, finance, governance, undergrad) and global perspectives
- Meaningful impact opportunities: helped participants develop and publish their work, connected participants with research teams as co-authors
- Excellent course hub with well-structured content and materials
- Helpful facilitator training sessions provided
- Collaborative learning environment that encourages unique perspectives
Cons
- Limited performance feedback mechanisms for facilitators: this is understandable, as providing feedback to facilitators at scale is quite difficult, but still a downside.
- It's easy for all of the channels on Slack + pages on the coursehub to feel like noise; it would be nice to have a single centralized calendar which has events, deadlines, filters, etc.
- Upwards mobility is not clear, with the main path I see being "make it somewhere else using this credential" - while this does seem to work, it's still worth noting.
- While I don't want to be "bogged down" in meetings as a part time/contract employee, it took quite some time to get to know individuals on the core BlueDot Impact team, and some I still haven't met.