Course Assessment & Feedback
Course assessment is based on the assessment by teachers and students themselves in a following way:
- Half of the grade comes from the assessment by teachers
- Half of the grade comes from the assessment by students through self and peer assessment
Instructions about Self and Peer Assessment can be found below.
Note that as there is no exam in the course but learning and assessment is based on group work, individual assignments and sessions, it is compulsory to participate in all Contact Sessions and Case Study Sessions.
Self and Peer Assessment Form File Word-dokumentti
Download the form for Self and peer assessment here. Read instructions carefully, fill in the form and submit through the link below.
WAT-E2080 Grades - Course Assessment File Pdf-tiedosto
Attached are the grades for the course: well done!
Course Feedback
This is first time we organise this course, so all feedback is welcome already during the course: please be active!
Easiest way to give feeback is to talk to Juho or Marko after the contact / case study sessions Alternatively, send email to course email address: wat-e2080 (at) aalto.fi. You can also give anonymous feedback through MyCourses (see below).
Also remember to give Course Feedback at the end through the Webropol link sent to your email.
Thank you for your feedback!
Synthesis of & reflection on your Course Feedback
Thank you very much for the feedback you gave on our course individually through electronic Course Feedback (available here) and as a group through MyCourses Discussion Forum (available here).
We were happy to see that you generally found both the course content and the learning methods used useful and supportive of your learning. The diversity of different learning methods was appreciated, and e.g. interactive parts of the course were seen to "have a deep impact". The variety of contact sessions and the idea of having several visiting lecturers was also found to be good. Several students found personal reflections to be particularly helpful, even "perfect for deepening knowledge". As you can see from the feedback, Case Study Sessions were also considered to be useful, particularly in terms of providing practical context and applying the governance analysis tools. They were also seen to complement nicely the Tuesday's Contact Sessions.
There were also several good suggestions for improvements. For example, some of the reading material was considered too heavy and partly even unfit for the given theme: this is naturally something we need to consider for the next implementation of this course. In addition, all guiding questions did not seem to facilitate discussion as well as was intended. Also some of the Contact Sessions were seen to be rather heavy and/or theoretical.
It was also clear that the schedule for the Case Study Sessions (particularly the first one) was very tight, which hindered the first groups' possibility to delve deeper into the theme and its analysis. While others found the entire process of the Case Study Sessions to be clear, others thought that the methodology and instructions for the case studies were too vague and insufficient. Given how important role the Case Study Sessions have in this course, this is something we need to address as well. As a practical step forward, we have already decided that the next course's Case Study Sessions will be started bit later and we will also have a joint workshop where we initiate the case study analysis together.
Couple of students also wished that the course would run for a bit longer, which would enable deeper learning and better reflection. This is something we as a teachers hope as well, but the timeframe given for each period does not provide that possibility.
Overall the feedback was positive and helpful, and gives guidance for the future development of the course. Thank you once again for your feedback!
Marko & Juho
