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Feedback from 2021-09-17
EW delivered to CDT-BAI 1st year students with helper Sandy Nelson, on 2021-09-17. Started at 10:05, coffee break 11:15, resumed 11:30, ended 12:30. In that time we covered the introduction, Data management, and Software sections, with a little on "What next". The students mostly seemed to have previous software experience so was on the more skilled end of the crowd.
Instructor feedback (EW)
Good:
- interesting discussions with good engagement
- great discussions about how to really do good practices as habits and motivations for that
- plenty of "lived experience"
- nice section about data management
- good discussion on open data formats
- good discussion around tidy data
- surprising discussion about functions vs object oriented
- tests can be examples of usage as well as documentation
Bad:
- uneven engagement on collab doc, some people turned their cameras off
- more strategic use of breakout rooms could keep people engaged
- timing was pretty bad, our estimates are unrealistic
- it is difficult to teach from the big blocks of text in the current lesson, they can be cut down a lot.
- I agree with the student feedback that we need more thorough overview at the beginning.
Student Feedback
One thing you would keep about today's workshop:
- student involvement
- shared working document
- hearing examples from experience
- hearing everyones lived experiences and all the tools out there
One thing you would change about today's workshop:
- add actual implementation of best practices
- time to cover the other material (or links to read up on them in own time)
- provide specific toy examples of an issue (e.g more code snippets/diagrams),
- more of an overview of the whole session and key topics to discuss before getting started