WAT-E2080 - Water and Governance D, Lecture, 10.1.2022-2.3.2022

Topic outline

• Course Assessment & Feedback
  Course assessment is based on the assessment by both teachers and students in a following way: 
  

  • Half of the grade comes from the assessment by teachers 

         - 1/4 of the grade based on Reading Circle Summaries
         - 3/4 based on Case Study (25% from Case Study presentation, 75% from Case Study Report)
  

  • Half of the grade comes from the assessment by students through Peer & Self Assessment

  
  

  Instructions about Peer & Self Assessment will be provided during the course.

  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. You can miss one session, after that you must do a personal Compensatory Task (see Sessions & Reading Circles sub-page).

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    WAT-E2080 course grades File

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    The attached pdf-document shows your sub-grades and final grade for the course. Do note that you have also received to your email the anonymous feedback from Peer & Self Assessment: please read it also carefully and reflect against the relevant grade. If you have questions, please contact course teachers through course email. 

  • Course Feedback 

    You can give feedback both during and after the course. Feedback encourages your own reflection while also helping us to improve the course, so please be active! 

    The feedback from the last year's course is available here, and we have used it to develop the course further by e.g. clarifying the Case Study instructions and timetable as well as developing the analytical framework further. At the same time, the remote learning mode for this year's course has naturally changed many course practicalities.

    
    

    Feedback during the course

    There are three ways to give feedback during the course. Easiest way to give feeback is to talk to course teachers after the sessions. Alternatively, you can send email to course email address: wat-e2080 (at) aalto.fi. You can also give anonymous feedback box through MyCourses (see below).

    
    

    Feedback after the course
    

    You will give feedback in three different ways after the course. You can give feedback electronically as part of your Peer & Self Assessment as well as through usual Course Feedback through Webropol. In addition, we will have a short feedback and reflection session during the last Contact Session of the course, where you can discuss the course with your group and teachers. 

    
    

    Thank you for your feedback! 

    
    

  • Feedback on your feedback ('vastapalaute')

    Thank you for the feedback you provided through official Course Feedback as well as through Feedback box! 

    Below you can find the report from your Course Feedback as well as the part of the Peer & Self Assessment where you shared your views generally on your group and its work. We also send you by email the anonymous personal feedback from Peer & Self Assessment: do read it carefully as well.

    
    

    It was great to read your feedback, and learn that you generally found the course and its teaching methods useful (see also figures below). The respondents also indicated that the course work load is at the right level, and that you generally think that you will benefit from the things learnt during the course. 

    Your written feedback showed that you appreciated particularly the interactive teaching methods, and the generally well-structured course that used variety of different learning methods. Also the group-based case study work as well as guest lecturers (with their real-life experience and examples) were found useful. 

    This all is naturally really good to hear, and encourages us to continue with this kind of course structure. 

    
    

    There are, however, also things that require attention and possible changes. The most obvious challenge for the course was that it had to ultimately be organised fully online. While you generally felt that the online arrangements worked smoothly, it is clear that particularly this kind of course building on active learning and group work would benefit from meeting in person. Or as some of the respondents wrote: "it [online learning] was ok. But in person is always a million times better" and "Campus is of course more preferable :)".
    
    On the other hand you also felt that the online tools (particularly Miro) helped interaction and also documentation and structuring of your discussion: some groups also used Miro while planning and brainstorming their case study work. 

    You also provided very nice and useful feedback regarding your group work (i.e. case study and reading circles) as part of your Peer & Self Assessment (see the pdf on this page). It is clear that a majority of the group worked really well, although naturally different ways of working did bring also challenges: this is natural, and tackling them is one important part of your learning during this course and entire WAT Master's Programme. 

    Some of you also noted that the groups with 6 people were bit too large: we agree, although the group sizes are naturally also dependent on the amount of students in the course (that typically changes during the first week even). Two possible ways to develop the course further would be to i) have less case studies but with 2 groups studying independently the same topic (which would ultimately also allow comparison on the case), and ii) having the reading circles in different groups than the case studies. We are considering to implement these both changes for the next year course - so all comments on these are naturally welcome! :)
    

    Thank you once again for your feedback - and participation in the course.

         Mia, Thomas & Marko

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

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    WAT-E2080 Course Feedback Report 2022 File

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    WAT-E2080 - Views on group work from Peer & Self Assessment File

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