DTU Informatics

ERMI Summer School 2013 at DTU

Main Campus, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

Empirical Research Methods in Informatics

Participants

The ERMI Summer School 2013 took place as planned, with 12 registered participants, 11 of which did actually attend.

Course Participants

Since this is the first time the summer school took place and I did next to nothing to advertise it, I consider this a very large audience. While most of the participants were from DTU, three came from other places (Trent and Bordeaux), one from a different DTU Campus (Risų), and one from DTU's open education line. All in all, we were very mixed in terms of national origin, which I found gave the course a very inspiring atmosphere.

Course Participants

Results

I took pictures of the group work results and combind them with your final presentations (as far as I could find them) into a ZIP-file.

Feedback

For a number of technical and organisational reasons, we could not use the regular CampusNet feedback system, so I asked the participants at the end of the course to share their opinions about what was good and bad about the course by writing on the board while I was away. Here's a picture of the result.

Feedback on the board

Since the quality of the pens used (and the picture taken) is not very good, I have also transcribed the results.

GOOD BAD
  • Easy to follow course flow
  • Very good lectures and well-planned groupwork sessions!
  • Inspiring teaching style
  • Exercises and Student presentations
  • collaboration in the exercises
  • Great coverage of empirical research methods
  • liked the hand-on sessions!
  • Practical work after topics
  • Very good communication
  • Teachong methods and materials
  • Group work and discussions
  • Good practical examples from CS
  • You should update the CampusNet description
  • It would be better to provide a time schedule in advance
  • For profane subjects a package of definitions at the beginning would have improved the [contents?] of the courses
  • A bit more focus on validation and threats to validity
  • The duration of the course is not enough
  • Not enough xkcd comics

Needless to say that I am very happy indeed about this feedback!

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