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| 1.
Overall assessment of the module? |
0
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3
[3%] |
20
[22%] |
41
[44%] |
28
[31%] |
|  Comment:
Over 74% rate the module as very
good or excellent. In fact nearly 97%
thought that it module was good, or
better. Many modules have pluses and
minuses, so it's nice to see that there
are more very goods and excellents than
anything else.
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| 2.
How would you rate the quality of the
teaching pack? |
0
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2
[2%] |
11
[12%] |
36
[39%] |
45
[47%] |
|  Comment:
Nearly 86% of all students reckon that
the teaching pack is either very good
or excellent. In fact 98% thought
that it was good or better. In the future
more work will be done on integrating
the teaching pack with the WWW material.
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| 3.
How would you rate the organisation
of the module? |
1
[1%] |
3
[3%] |
17
[18%] |
35
[38%] |
37
[39%] |
| Comment:
The module is taken by part-time and
full-time students, so it's nice to
see that most thought that the organisation
was either very good or excellent. Every
student should have had the same experience,
although some students who studied the
module remotely, and came in on a single
evening for one hour every week maybe
didn't have the same experience as the
rest of the students. Overall the majority
of students reckoned that the organisation
was excellent. |
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| 4.
How would you rate the quality of the
lectures? |
0 |
3
[3%] |
15
[16%] |
35
[38%] |
39
[42%] |
| Comment:
The module is taken by many modes of
study, including part-time, and evening
classes. As much as possible we tried
to give everyone the same educational
experience, but this is difficult. 97%
of students reckoned that the quality
of the lectures were good or better.
As much as possible we tried to cover
the high-level objectives of units,
and show demonstrations of the key principes.
I, personally, do not see any advantage
is going over the details of the notes,
as this should be done away from a lecture. |
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| 5.
How would you rate the knowledge of
the lecturing team? |
0 |
0 |
3
[3%] |
34
[35%] |
57
[63%] |
| Comment:
Everyone thought that the knowledge
of the lecturing team with good or better.
In fact 96% of students reckoned
that it was very good or excellent.
Academics are sometimes critised for
their up-to-date knowledge, so it is
nice to see that the knowledge of the
teaching team was reckonised. The School
now has a Distributed Systems research
group, with a heathly porfolio of research
publications, and internationally reckonised
publications, so hopefully we can grow
this for the future. |
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Very
Good |
Excellent |
| 6.
How would you rate the help you received
from the teaching team? |
1
[1%] |
6
[7%] |
15
[18%] |
31
[37%] |
31[37%]
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| Comment:
An equal split between very good and
excellent. With so many different modes
of study and programmes it is difficult
to give everyone a good level of support,
so the result is a good one. I can only
assume that the single poor rating relates
to the flexiable-study, evening class.
We tried as much as possible to support
on-line questions, an open-door policy,
surgery sessions for coursework submissions,
on-line lectures on the WWW site, telephone
support, but it's difficult to know
if everyone is receiving the ammount
of support that they require. |
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| 7.
How relavent was the module for your
education in computing/ engineering? |
2
[2%] |
6
[7%] |
18
[21%] |
33
[37%] |
28[33%]
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| Comment:
Not a bad result. The programmes covered
ranges from a course which focuses on
the integration of Management with Technology
to Computing/Software Engineering, so
it is nice to see that 92% of students
reckoned that it was good or better,
for relavence. |
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| 8.
How would you rate the interest of the
tutorial sessions? |
2
[2%] |
15
[13%] |
27
[31%] |
31
[34%] |
14[16%]
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| Comment:
Never an easy thing to get right, as
there are so many students studying
the module, so it's a good result. Each
tutorial session has a worksheet to
complete, so that everyone knew at which
point they should be at. |
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Excellent |
| 9.
How would you rate the information that
you received on the module (such as
Module Outline,
Teachers Notes,
and so on)? |
0 |
1
[1%] |
11
[13%] |
35
[40%] |
41[46%]
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| Comment:
99% of students reckoned the information
they received was good, or better. The
aims of the module have been refined
over the last few years, and we've setup
a single reference page for all the
module resources. |
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Very
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Excellent |
| 10.
How would you rate the usage of e-mail
and WWW support? |
0 |
1
[1%] |
2
[2%] |
18
[20%] |
69
[76%] |
| Comment:
Email and WWW support, I think, are
key in the foundation of any IT-related
module, so is nice to see that it is
appreciated. With nearly 300 students
taking the module at Napier, and many
others from franchised sites, it is
impossible to keep everyone up-to-date,
so the WWW site, and teaching pack helps
with this. The only problem with this
is that there may be too much information,
but too much information is better than
too little. |
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Excellent |
| 11.
How would you rate the provision of
on-line
lectures? |
0 |
1
[1%] |
6
[7%] |
30
[37%] |
45
[54%] |
| Comment:
Top score!!!!! We will make sure that
all the lectures are on-line before
the start of the module. My computer
had a severe crash at the start of the
module, so it took me a while to get
things back, and the provision of on-line
lectures was not a major priority. In
these times many students cannot attend
lectures, but are keen to actively study,
so the on-line lectures are best for
this. I don't think we can ever encapsulate
the feedback and response that you get
from a 'real' lecture, but on-line lectures
help to give some feeling of the real
thing. They also allow for students
to re-read material, after the lecture,
as it is reckoned that less than half
of the concepts covered in a lecture
are properly understood after the lecture. |
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| 29.
How does this module compare with other
modules that you have studied? |
0
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2
[2%] |
4
[5%] |
26
[28%] |
57
[65%] |
| Comment:
It's difficult to please everyone, especially
with so many different ranges of programmes
and so many students on the module,
but 93% rating it above average,
or better, is a good result. Over 65%
rated it well above average. |
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