Artificial Intelligence Methods (G5BAIM)
Course Feedback - Academic Year 1998/99
This course is run at Nottingham University. It is a second/third year option. This page summarises the feedback
from the students that attended the course.
All comments are listed.
A response from the lecturer is also given.
The lecturer is Graham Kendall. Feel free to email me.
The home page for the course (including a full set of course handouts) can be found
here.
Comments from Course Feedback Forms
- Handouts were good
- Go faster over simple topics
- Plodding Manner - Pitched at very basic level
- Increase the pace of the lectures, more depth, speak properly
- Good Notes
- Speak a bit louder and clearer
- Give solutions to revision exercises
- Give Feedback on teh assessed coursework
- Leaving the room was the most effective about the teaching method
- Speak up, talk to the whole class
- Notes were very good, good style of lecturing - casual and relaxed
- Coursework very relevant to course material and he was very helpful
- The subject could be harder
- The most effective part was the choice of material to teach : concise yet informative
- To improve the teaching a more clear logical method of explanation might be approriate
- Clear Explanation, good notes
- Give feedback on coursework
- Good Speaker
- Good explanations on a level that everyone could understand
- Make notes abit more concise and straight to the point - they were a bit waffly
- A better summary of key points at the end of each lecture
- Some overheads were a bit fuzzy and the lecturer did not talk very loudly
- Better interaction with teh class might improve the quality of teaching
- Good summary of lectures
- Outlined claerly what we were going to do
- The course does not have a lot of content
- The levturer was confident and showed interest in the subject
- Good teaching method
- The lectuer was willing to help
- The lecturer was clear and well organised
- Great course
- Good teaching style, pitched at the right sort of pace
- The topics covered were presented clearly and the lecturer explained them in an uncomplicated way
- Pretty good all round
- As is always the problem with computer science modules, feedback on the coursework was poor
- The lecturer had a keen interest in the subject
- It is easy and fun to learn from the lecturer
- Give more examples
- Make this module non-examination and have more coursework and assessment
- The lecturer was rather funny
- The full text of his notes made later study easier
- The use of examples was helpful
- Feedback on coursework would be helpful
- Excellent notes given out as handouts
- Good notes provided before lectures so you could read up on the content before the lecture
- Gave the impression the lecturer was willing to answer any queries
- Gave out revision sheets which helped show bits you needed to go through again
Total Questionnaires Returned = 35
Number of students who sat exam = 64
Lecturers Response
I will try to take on board these comments when planning the course for 1999/2000.
I hope that I can improve the lectures by converting all my OHP's to powerpoint. As we
will be moving to the new campus, it will be possible to use this presentation medium in all
lecture facilities.
Some of the comments are contradictory (good lecturer/bad lecturer) so it is difficult to
know how to address these areas.
With regards to course feedback, I will try to do this next year but it is CSIT policy
not to give feedback as it is seen as part of the examination process.