| Oh Ben - I just remembered I never filled in that form for Nick. |
| Did you do it? |
| The course feedback form? |
| Yes. |
| If you want, we can do it together, |
| I've got mine here. |
| Is that OK? |
| Yeah. |
| Okay, let's have a look then. |
| What do we have to do? |
| Let's fill in the top first, |
| let's see, Course, Course code... |
| Er, it's Communication in Business. |
| Okay, Communication... in.. Business. |
| I do know that, but what's the code? |
| CB16 something, |
| CB162, isn't it? |
| Mmm, that's it. Okay and dates. |
| When did we start? |
| I remember, my birthday's on May 4th and it was the day after, |
| it must have been May 5th. |
| Gosh, doesn't seem that long ago, does it? |
| No, and we finish at the end of this week, on Friday, so that's... |
| July 15th? |
| Er 16th, Monday was the 12th. |
| Right, that was the easy bit, now let's have a look - |
| "Please give your comments on the following aspects of the course". |
| Okay, what's the first one? |
| Oh, course organisation. |
| What do you think? |
| Er, clear? |
| It was, wasn't it? |
| Yeah, I think the organisation was clear. |
| Okay, anything else for course organisation? |
| Erm... It was a good thing he gave us the course outline at the beginning, in the first session, |
| that was useful, so I'll put that down, shall I? |
| Yeah. |
| Now, going on to suggestions for improvement, |
| one thing that wasn't so good, |
| I think we could have done a bit more work at the beginning, |
| I mean at the beginning it seemed dead easy. |
| I thought it was going to be really easy |
| and then all of a sudden in the second half of the course, we got a whole load of work, |
| reading to do and essays and things. |
| Yeah, it'd be better if it was more even. |
| Okay, now course delivery, |
| does that mean teaching? |
| Yeah, I suppose so. |
| Well, what I thought was really good on this course was the standard of teaching. |
| Actually - I mean some of the teachers were better than others - |
| but the standard generally was fine. |
| Much better than other courses I've been on. |
| Yeah, I agree. Let's put that then. |
| What about suggestions for improvement? |
| I didn't think it was all that wonderful when we had great long group discussion sessions that went on for hours and hours. |
| I don't mean we shouldn't have group discussions, |
| just that they shouldn't go on too long. |
| Now, on to materials and equipment. |
| Oh, now what was good about some sessions was the handouts. |
| Yes, I thought all the handouts were good actually, and some were great, with website addresses and everything. |
| One problem though with materials was the key texts. |
| Yes! |
| There just weren't enough copies on reserve in the library. |
| And if you can't get the key texts before the session, |
| how are you supposed to do the reading? |
| And not enough computers. |
| You have to wait ages to get one. |
| OK, testing and evaluation. |
| Well, I don't know, it's hard to say until we've got our written assignments back. |
| Don't talk about it, |
| I only got mine in yesterday, it was a real struggle. |
| I hate to think what mark I'll get. |
| Yeah, but at least we've done the oral presentation. |
| I thought that was good, the way I got my feedback really quickly. |
| Yes, it was. |
| And I liked the way we knew what we'd be evaluated on, |
| we knew the criteria, so we knew we had to think about clarity, organisation, and so on. |
| But I'm not so sure about the written work. |
| One thing I think is that there's just too much, it's really stressful. |
| Oh yes, I'd agree |
| and I don't see why they can't let us know the criteria they use for marking. |
| The written assignments? |
| But he told us. |
| No, for the final exams. |
| What are they looking for - what are the criteria? |
| What makes a pass or a fail? |
| Yeah, I never thought of that. |
| It'd be really useful. |
| Okay, any other comments? |
| I thought student support was excellent. |
| Yeah, me too. |
| Okay, excellent. |
| Other comments? |
| No. I can't think of anything else. |
| Nor me. |
| Okay, so that's done. |
| Thanks, Ben. |
| No, thank you. |