FUI's course evaluation

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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 rate the course Good with an OK amount of work needed. The students also felt there was a general lack of group tuition with an blackboard and obligatory assignments to back up the learning process throughout the semester.

The student feel like the curriculum was chaotic and badly organized with too much irrelevant content listed as obligatory reading. The tutor is excellent and passionate about the course.

Quotes:

The “syllabus” is not good at all. [The lecturer] says some things are mandatory reading, but it’s not according to [the] slides. It shouldn’t be that hard to read the correct core readings for the exam. Also, finding the right books was very hard.

Passionate and ALIVE lecturer! Good and current/updated materials.

Interesting topics and the lecturer seems very dedicated to the subject.

Yes. The information about the curriculum is confusing, seeing that there are different books listed as curriculum on the term page and on the slides. Also, the slides state that both 5th and 6th edition of one of the books could be used, but the 6th edition (at least the international one) is missing some of the chapters that are part of the curriculum. To sum up, I used a lot of time to find out exactly which book I should be reading.

[The lecturer] is an excellent and passionate lecturer. I loved and enjoyed every single lecture. I wish the course was recorded for revision. I also wish that there was clear information on what was relevant for the exam. There was almost 1500 pages on the mandatory reading list. I felt it was extremely overwhelming. Had it not been the only course I had taken, I wouldn’t have managed to go through it all. Not everything on the mandatory reading list was exam relevant, maybe half of the mandatory reading should be on the recommended list.

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.