Chapter 10 (Week 14) has finally been read and the online tutorials for that week completed. This section of the course has been a struggle. Lots of repetition of content, and then subtle differences are slipped in that can take a bit of thinking about.
But the biggest frustrations have been the errors and other problems in the teaching materials.
Being the first year this course has been run you'd expect there to be some problems, and there have been,
- Text in the books has been incorrect and misleading.
- Activities on the on-line website have been wrong.
- Text on the on-line website has been incorrect, misleading or badly written
and the most disappointing aspect of this is that there has been no official response from the DD209 course team in the form of warnings or corrections.
This would be difficult for the text book, but should be done immediately for the website. Having students struggle, doubt themselves and waste their time unnecessarily with online activities that could easily be changed is unacceptable.
So, just over a week to sort out last weeks online work and then tackle the iCMA and the TMA. Looks like it will be a busy weekend next weekend.
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