FUI's course evaluation

INF-BIO9121 - High Throughput Sequencing technologies and bioinformatics analysis

Assessment:

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How do you rate the course in general? How do you rate the level of the course? How do you rate the work load in proportion to the number of credits achieved? The quality of the lectures? The lectures' relevance and usefulness in regard to relaying what you need to learn? The quality of the group tuition as a whole? In what degree does group tuition and weekly assignments give you practical skills and the possibility to make use of the theory at hand? Are the curriculum and learning outcomes of the course sufficiently defined? How do you rate the course material used (text book etc.)? How do you rate the difficulty level of the obligatory assignments? What is your opinion in regard to the number of obligatory assignments? How do you rate the difficulty level of the final examination? Show all Hide

Summary:

The students are mostly very happy with the quality of the lectures.

Many of the students (67 %) rate the course as Difficult, and equally many rate the work load as Large or Too large. Some of the students want more hours in computer terminals/laboratories, and more oracle service hours.

Quotes:

[A lecturer] was exceptionally very good. All his lectures were very interesting and pleasing to follow. His practicals were also wonderful. [Another lecturerer] was exceptionally very good as well, I enjoyed his lectures, I appreciated the level of detail and scope he covered in his module; it was a nice a complete story to follow. His practicals were nice but because of disproportionate time allocated to the module compared to the content of the module (according to my opinion), the practicals were rather stressful. But since his pipeline/scripts are neatly prepared and well documented, it makes up for it.

Because the whole process of the course was quite intensive and it requires too much effort, I felt a lot of burden at the moment, but once I am done with the mandatory home assignment/exam I was very glad because I actually learned a great deal by sitting down and working on the home exam. It was stressful and exhausting but I suppose it is worth it.

On what was particularly good:

The diverse topics covered in separate modules.

Hands-on bash experience and script manipulation.

I think the proportion between theoretical teaching and practical tasks were well balanced. The use of active learning techniques during lectures was also very well applied and useful.

About the course evaluation

The course evaluation is done by students in FUI (Fagutvalget ved Institutt for informatikk), and is based on questionnaires made at the end of each semester.