INFO381 - emnerapport 2009 vår

Faglærers vurdering av gjennomføring

Praktisk gjennomføring

INFO381 in spring 2009 went quite well. In general the students were interested in the subject and worked quite hard. Some advanced AI algorithms are quite abstract and require mathematical understanding. Because our students are generally not very strong in mathematics, I used many real life examples and different pedagogical methods so that they can understand the algorithms easily. In addition to the examples I showed in the lectures, the students also went out to find their own examples on the Internet and demonstrated them to the class. There have been many interesting discussions during the seminars which were very inspiring. This indicates their genuine interest in the course and that they have done critical thinkings. Relevant literatures and software programs were uploaded to the studentportal earlier in the semester. Mathias and Aleksander have been very helpful during the course. 

Most of the international students did not do very well. The reason (after talking to them and the studiekonsulenten) was that these students took two many courses in one semester and they simply did not have enough time.

Strykprosent og frafall

Karakterfordeling

Studieinformasjon og dokumentasjon

Tilgang til relevant litteratur

Faglærers vurdering av rammevilkårene

Lokaler og undervisningsutstyr

Good!

Andre forhold

Faglærers kommentar til student-evalueringen(e)

Metode - gjennomføring

Oppsummering av innspill

Ev. underveistiltak

Faglærers samlede vurdering,
inkl. forslag til forbedringstiltak

There are several things that should be done better in the future:

1. Semester assignment was given in the very beginning (first seminar). But the follow-up was not very effective. The students were asked to come up with proposals within two weeks. Only half of the students came up with proposals. It turns out to be rather difficult for some to come up with their own ideas. So in the future there should be some suggestions so that the students can pick up one from them.

2. Currently most of the literature in this area are towards computer science (informatics) students who have stronger mathematic background than our students. So the literature was found to be rather difficult for the students. During this course I have made a set of easy reading slides for the relevant mathematics which the students found much easier to understand. These could be further developed into some kind of literature for information science students.