Thursday, February 12, 2004

Feedback from standardised "module questionnaires" is often useless (so many students draw pretty patterns on their MCQ grids!) apart from the written comments section that I often enjoy reading. The dominant theme from WebTech last term seemed to be "It's too hard with too much work!" Well excuse me for having high standards!! It always amuses me to read comments like that and then see the same student ticking the "1-3 hours a week spent on the module" box or (funnier!) the "Found this module no harder than my other modules" or (funniest!) "I attended over 80% of the lectures" -- the average attendance is below 2/3 so it's a bit unlikely! However if you're reading this and genuinely found it hard work then ... good! I happen to think that there is an ideal workload that is often more than you/I/the student feels comfortable working at ... it's the balance that matters and I aim to make the workload challenging but not (hopefully) impossible. Not everyone is motivated by high expectations but as "they" say ;-) "You can't please everyone all the time"! (So a note for next year: The high workload stays!)

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