FUI's course evaluation

INF5261 - Development of mobile information systems and services

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? Are the curriculum and learning outcomes of the course sufficiently defined? Show all Hide

Summary:

The respondents rate the difficulty of this course OK or Easy, and the workload as OK. When rating the quality of the lectures the respondents range from Exceptionally good to Not that good. Opinions on the relevance and usefulness of the lectures is also quite varied, ranging from Exceptionally good to Not good.

The respondents are divided on whether or not the intensive course worked for them. Some felt it was an interesting way of learning, and that it gave them more insight into developing apps. While others expressed a need for more general lectures, and that the course should be fitted into a larger time frame.

Quotes:

Both the main lecturers were helpful when it came to guidance, one of the lecturers way of lecturing is very clean cut and also fun, using different tactics to keep attention and make sure the class stays awake. The other lecturer asked relevant and direct questions to the groups’ presentations that helped get insight.

Running it as an intensive course was great. I very much prefer this way of running courses.

More general lectures that are of interest for all groups. Not so much listening to other groups present what is relevant for them, but not so much the audience.

It was a unique experience to have an intensive course in regards to how courses are usually structured at IFI, and it gave insight to how much needs to be considered when developing apps with specific user groups in mind […]

Use the intensive course format for what it’s worth. You have us for the entire day three days each week. Have workshops that span entire days, have 2-3 day intensive design tasks that start monday and end with an informal presentation on wednesday.

I think it would make more sense to change this course into a course that is held during the whole semester. It would also be nice to have presentations about each project status more often during the semester.

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.