Bad Lecturers (1 Viewer)

[poloktim]

We normally have them at least once a semester. So what makes them so bad? What could improve them? What subjects have they been known to teach?

Why have a UOW forum if we're not going to warn each other about some of the perils of UOW? We need to get a channel of communication open here.

To get the ball rolling, we had one lecturer for CSCI222 (who doesn't lecture that subject anymore) last year. I turned up to every lecture, and I tried to get something out of it. People who know me, know as much as I hate the place, I am a good student. But this bloke, man worst lecturer I've ever had.

Anybody got any others?

 

[nwatts]

POL121 lecturer is not great. I have her in tutorials, and she seems far more chill and lucid, but in lectures, gosh she's bad. Mind you monday's was particularly good. Watched a doco for an hour.

I don't rate the WRIT121 highly. She's knows what she's talking about, and is definitely a great source of info/ideas- but she has such a patronising manner that doesn't gel amazingly well.

 

[Scanorama]

I met 3 last session: CSCI204, CSCI212 and CSCI203. CSCI212 was particularly bad, it was lectured by 2 people, both of them were crap.

 

[dawso]

considering the fact that lecturers take more ythan one subject.....i beleive its best to name names, even if it opens myself up for potential disaster.....

last session i had this lame guy for maths, and now have had him again a few times this session, ken stevenson, the dude has np passion and makes lame jokes, talks in monotone, just overly bad

also, rodney vickers ive had a few times and although he tries hard, his lectures are always boring and not structured, he releases his notes on the net and they make absolutely no sense, also quite lame

 

[DooGseY]

CSCI204

What? I don't think you will find any better lecturers than Ian or Luke.

 

[Scanorama]

What? I don't think you will find any better lecturers than Ian or Luke.

Luke was awesome, Ian is just not my cup of tea. He explained stuff much better than Ian.

Eric Rayner is the worst I've seen. Minjie was pretty bad too.

 

[poloktim]

What? I don't think you will find any better lecturers than Ian or Luke.

Luke is pretty awesome. If you ever have 300-level electives to do, CSCI361/CSCI368 is what you should do. Difficult, but awesome.

 

[Born Dancer]

POL121 lecturer is not great. I have her in tutorials, and she seems far more chill and lucid, but in lectures, gosh she's bad. Mind you monday's was particularly good. Watched a doco for an hour.

more like, bludged on your computer for an hour..

yes pol121 is particularly bad. not only does she hate us all, but she mumbles an awful lot, and talks in a way that assumes everyone is at a particular level of knowledge when that is clearly not the case.

i havent spoken to one single person that understands this course. i dont even get what we are meant to be learning as such.

 

[nwatts]

more like, bludged on your computer for an hour..

yes pol121 is particularly bad. not only does she hate us all, but she mumbles an awful lot, and talks in a way that assumes everyone is at a particular level of knowledge when that is clearly not the case.

i havent spoken to one single person that understands this course. i dont even get what we are meant to be learning as such.

respect the now departed computer!

and you've spoken to me. i know pretty much everything there is to know

 

[Raiks]

Welcome to Bad Lecturing 101, First up will be Roll Call:

Khorshed Chowdhury
Frank Neri
Julie Sutherland
Dr Ah Ba Sim
Hema Wijewardena

 

[glitter burns]

I don't rate the WRIT121 highly. She's knows what she's talking about, and is definitely a great source of info/ideas- but she has such a patronising manner that doesn't gel amazingly well.

Which lecturer is that?
You better not be talking about Shady, she's bloody awesome.

 

[Tulipa]

Which lecturer is that?
You better not be talking about Shady, she's bloody awesome.

nah

Alanna Valentine (sp?)

and i actually like all my lecturers for this session, although the lecturer for WRIT122 (prose) is fucking hilarious. most random outbursts in lectures.

 

[Spiked_Phate]

To get the ball rolling, we had one lecturer for CSCI222 (who doesn't lecture that subject anymore) last year. I turned up to every lecture, and I tried to get something out of it. People who know me, know as much as I hate the place, I am a good student. But this bloke, man worst lecturer I've ever had.

Lol, Im doing 222 this semester, and maybe its the content, but its still pretty crap. 4 weeks in and we are listening to the same stuff as the first week.

 

[Raiks]

We normally have them at least once a semester. So what makes them so bad? What could improve them? What subjects have they been known to teach?

Why have a UOW forum if we're not going to warn each other about some of the perils of UOW? We need to get a channel of communication open here.

To get the ball rolling, we had one lecturer for CSCI222 (who doesn't lecture that subject anymore) last year. I turned up to every lecture, and I tried to get something out of it. People who know me, know as much as I hate the place, I am a good student. But this bloke, man worst lecturer I've ever had.

Anybody got any others?

See Tim, I just don't turn up to class enough for it to be worthwhile of declaring someone is a crap lecturer... the ones who do shit me to tears are the ones who ring me at home to ask why I'm MIA. And that's when the lies about houses burning down, illegitimate pregnancies etc come into the fray.

 

[poloktim]

Lol, Im doing 222 this semester, and maybe its the content, but its still pretty crap. 4 weeks in and we are listening to the same stuff as the first week.

If the lecturer you have is who I think it is, then it's a different person to who we had last year. But yes, whenever we had that particular lecturer (the one you've got), he did simply go over the same topics each week.

 

[nwatts]

Which lecturer is that?
You better not be talking about Shady, she's bloody awesome.

nah shady's fantastic

alana is not

 

[Serius]

considering the fact that lecturers take more ythan one subject.....i beleive its best to name names, even if it opens myself up for potential disaster.....

last session i had this lame guy for maths, and now have had him again a few times this session, ken stevenson, the dude has np passion and makes lame jokes, talks in monotone, just overly bad

also, rodney vickers ive had a few times and although he tries hard, his lectures are always boring and not structured, he releases his notes on the net and they make absolutely no sense, also quite lame

A. Vickers is kinda boring aswell, lectured hist107 last semester. a relation perhaps?

 

[Terra_Niux]

Lecturers that I have had include:

CSCI114: Procedural Programming
Willy Susilo: Good Willy is pretty awesome, presents the lectures in a very easy to understand way and provides many examples.

Jo Abrantes: Good Although she can be hard to understand at time she is very thorough and definetely takes the time to make sure you understand the content.

CSCI103: Algorithms and Problem Solving
Anne Fuller: Bad Anne is a terrible lecturer, CSCI103 was delivered exceptionally poorly, got no explanation for assignments and she never ever replied to emails.

STAT131: Understanding Variation and Uncertainty
Anne Porter: Average Anne Porter was pretty good, she delivered the lectures as expected, assignments tended to be fairly easy however she didn't provide much assistance.

BUSS102: Computer Systems
Jim McKee: Bad All this bloke would do is read off a microsoft word document every lesson: word for word.

CSCI124: Object Programming
Koren Ward: Average Koren is a pretty strange lady but she tries her best to keep you afloat.

Peter Castle: Good Peter is an awesome lecturer, he provides decent assignments, decent amount of help and presents some really good lectures.

ECTE182: Internet Technology 1
Christian Ritz: Average This guy is pretty good, not the best but not the worst, his exams suck though.

David Stirling: Bad Does this bloke know what a microphone is? Seriously, I don't think I ever heard him speak a proper sentence without mumbling. He can be helpful one on one though.

BUSS212: Database Management Systems
Peter Eklund: Good Peter is a great lecturer, even though he is the head of Information Systems he still loves to get in there and teach even the lower subjects. Provides really decent lectures and is always helpful. Note: Anyone that does this subject will have to put up with "Cheef" who is a DICKHEAD.

CSCI102: Systems
Gene Awyzio: Average Yeah Gene isn't too bad I guess, she dedicates lectures on how to write which are completely wrong.

CSCI204: C Family and Unix
Luke McAven: Good Luke is easily the best lecturer i've had at Uni, he has really good lectures, really good assignments (except for the Car Traffic one people from last semester may remember) and ALWAYS responds to emails.

Ian Piper: Bad All this guy ever does is rave on about stupid jokes, the origins of "foo bar" and cough.

CSCI212: Interacting Systems
Minjie Zhang: Average Minjie wasn't too bad in my opinion, her lectures weren't too bad and needless to say she was always willing to help. Minjie also had a great sense of humour. Alot of people that bagged her last semester never showed up to any lectures.

I have saved the worst for last:

Eric Rayner: F*CKING TERRIBLE!This guy is a complete moron. If you are in SITACS and get stuck with this guy for a tute then change as fast as you can, if he is your lecturer, unenrol as fast as you can. If you are stuck with this guy as your only lecturer you WILL fail. He is exceptionally patronising, makes words up and goes on about his PhD thesis.

 

[Tenka]

Eric Rayner: F*CKING TERRIBLE!This guy is a complete moron. If you are in SITACS and get stuck with this guy for a tute then change as fast as you can, if he is your lecturer, unenrol as fast as you can. If you are stuck with this guy as your only lecturer you WILL fail. He is exceptionally patronising, makes words up and goes on about his PhD thesis.

I signed up on this forum just so I could express my agreeance with this.

Eric is by far the WORST lecturer in all of UoW, how they could let him in baffles me. Never in my life have I ever seen someone put in less effort in their primary job. When he lectures he reads of his lecture notes word for word and mumbles as he speaks. His Assignment specifications are so cryptic you spend more time desciphering them than doing them.

To add to that list:

CSCI213: Java and Object Oriented Programming
Neil Gray - Good - Probably one of the best lecturers I've had yet. I spent all of last semester figuring java out on my own pretty successfully and got a distinction for that subject. Coming back to 213 (an Introduction to Java) you would think I would have found it boring/pointless, thanks to Neil that is not the case. He knows more than his share of the material and has his own "quirks" that keep your attention in lectures much like Willy Susilo or even Peter Castle.

 

[poloktim]

CSCI124: Object Programming
Koren Ward: Average Koren is a pretty strange lady but she tries her best to keep you afloat.

Koren knows her work, explains it well and is always open for assisting students. I don't think she's average, and give her a lime Good. It is just my opinion though, and I'm not saying you're wrong.

ECTE182: Internet Technology 1
Christian Ritz: Average This guy is pretty good, not the best but not the worst, his exams suck though.

Christian is awesome. Nothing average about this bloke.

CSCI102: Systems
Gene Awyzio: Average Yeah Gene isn't too bad I guess, she dedicates lectures on how to write which are completely wrong.

Gene is simply teaching her class what they don't know. Sadly, a lot of people still don't know how to write.

CSCI213: Java and Object Oriented Programming
Neil Gray - Good - Probably one of the best lecturers I've had yet. I spent all of last semester figuring java out on my own pretty successfully and got a distinction for that subject. Coming back to 213 (an Introduction to Java) you would think I would have found it boring/pointless, thanks to Neil that is not the case. He knows more than his share of the material and has his own "quirks" that keep your attention in lectures much like Willy Susilo or even Peter Castle.

I do think Neil is an awesome lecturer, however when I took CSCI213 it was in the 40.HOPE and he always turned the lights off. The chairs were comfortable, which meant I would nap. I think I slept through most lectures.