Course Wrap Up

Surveys

1. Breadth vs depth of class

• Always a challenge; but did I spread too thin?
• Too much time on any specific topic?
• Too little time?

2. Synchronous sections - how to make more effective?

• Better if I lectured instead of responded?
• Too much lecturing?
• How were these relative to other courses?

3. Course Web site:

• Better than Sakai?
• Were documents useful?
• Good organization: streamline access or make more of a pain?

5. Sections: Useful? Tweaks?

• Advanced Geoprocessing

  * Incorporate into previous GIS classes?
     	* Useful in getting you to think in terms of workflow?
  

• Python 101

  * Could we skip this and plunge right in? Or was this helpful? 
     	* Make Python a prerequisite? 
  

• Writing scripts

  * A useful skill set? 
  

• ArcPy & writing geoprocessing scripts?

  * Will you use this? 
  

• Data science

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• Cloud-GIS

  • Which would you be interested in taking a full course on?

6. Side topics: useful or distracting?

• Jupyter and Spyder
• GitHub
• Conda

7. Evaluation

• Effective and fair evaluation of what you learned
• Problem sets useful or would exams be better (or both)?

8. Course project

• How to make class more useful for projects?

Where class examples useful?

• Too much ARGOS?
• Other examples useful?
• Helpful to have more examples that address equity? Social justice?