Thursday, November 20, 2003
Questionnaire summary
(Birmingham access only). Page 10 is the HCI course. Some interesting statistics - the most worrying one is the hours per week excluding lectures. SInce the course is designed so that the core information that is needed is on the web on the resource pages, the lectures are not there to provide coverage of the material you need to know - they are there to try to link together the different topics and give you an insight into the ways you need to think and hence the tools you can use to work that way. To read the relevant work and understand the material it talks about is likely to take longer on this course than on others, and yet the average hours per week is just under 1.1.
Given that this work is not being done, it's then hardly suprising that it's considered easy and that not much is being learned. I would hope that you do find much of it easy - conceptually, HCI is not difficult to understand - the hard part is in taking the mindset and issues and producing methods and solutions to the problems posed, and to get to that level of understanding you need the broad exposure to real issues, a variety of opinions and approaches that are covered in the web material.....
(Birmingham access only). Page 10 is the HCI course. Some interesting statistics - the most worrying one is the hours per week excluding lectures. SInce the course is designed so that the core information that is needed is on the web on the resource pages, the lectures are not there to provide coverage of the material you need to know - they are there to try to link together the different topics and give you an insight into the ways you need to think and hence the tools you can use to work that way. To read the relevant work and understand the material it talks about is likely to take longer on this course than on others, and yet the average hours per week is just under 1.1.
Given that this work is not being done, it's then hardly suprising that it's considered easy and that not much is being learned. I would hope that you do find much of it easy - conceptually, HCI is not difficult to understand - the hard part is in taking the mindset and issues and producing methods and solutions to the problems posed, and to get to that level of understanding you need the broad exposure to real issues, a variety of opinions and approaches that are covered in the web material.....
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