Students' comments
Here’s what students said about their course experience in 2003./2004.:
- The course in general:
"This course was one of the best that I had on faculty. "
"I was scared at beginning, but now I feel lucky I had been a part of this course. "
"With respect to that it was the first time for the course, it was excellent! "
"This course was a very good idea. Hope the next generations of students will enjoy it, too. "
- About the workload:
"Another week and I would have died. "
"Great new experience! "
"...I found out that it takes a lot of work to make something work as you want it to work. "
" I learned much more than I expected. I learn lot of team working, good organization of work, time and documentation importance. "
- The most liked things about the course were:
"meeting students from a different country."
"experience gained from working distributed."
"team work...You know, during the study we hadn't course like this, and I love it."
- Wish list for the future:
"Easier projects, better equipment for distributed work, final grade must not depend only on project results. "
"Real face-to-face contact for at least one day (~8-10 hours) in ~2-3 week of project. It would provide us with a lot of information about the other side that could be helpful in future contact and way of communication. We still don't know very much about each other. "
"More guest lecturing..."
"Start the project earlier so we don't have to spend the Christmas Eve glued to the computer screen. "
"More lectures about cultural differences and more about project management and team leadership. "
"Availability of technical resources. "
" …more video conferences. "
"All in all, DSD course in 2003/2004 was nothing short of a revelatory experience! It was radically different from all other courses undertaken in usual student “lifetime” and closer to the real world even more than everybody wanted to go."
