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Nov 7th Open Day: a message from the Director of Studies

Dear all,

Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday’s open day (photos below). It was great to meet so many interesting and engaged people wanting to study computing at Goldsmiths. Choosing a university is a very important decision and I wouldn’t want you to do so based just on one day’s visit, you need a real feel for what university life is like. That is why we are running this blog, to give you an insight to what our current students are doing and help you feel part of Goldsmiths before you arrive.

I will be posting about what is happening in the department and college, but I know that you don’t just want to hear from us lecturers, you want to know what students are thinking and doing. That is why we will be inviting students to be guest bloggers throughout the year and we’ll also be show casing student work and events from the department.

I look forward to seeing you all again, but if you have any questions in the mean time just email me on m.gillies(at)gold.ac.uk.

Marco

(Director of Studies in Computing)

 

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Happy Open Day, Goldsmiths (and processing videos!)

Thank you to all of you who visited Goldsmiths today to attend our open day. Prof. Zimmer (Head of Department) and the team have really enjoyed chatting to you all about our programmes and the department here at Goldsmiths.

I know we spoke to one or two of you about Joe Boston’s Processing tutorial videos. You can see more of Joe’s videos here but here’s one to be going on with 🙂

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OPEN DAY: Come and visit us

You might already know that Goldsmiths is holding an open day on February 15th. You are warmly invited to come and find out more about Goldsmiths. In particular, we want to draw your attention to the presentations being delivered by the Computing Department about our courses. Talks will take place at the following times:

3.00pm  UG programmes talk
3.45pm Computing masters programmes talk
4.30pm CAST masters programmes talk
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Open Meeting for Students!

Yesterday we had a department open meeting, which is an opportunity for students to give us feedback about the courses and make suggestions for improvement.

At Goldsmiths we work hard to involve students in the decisions we take. All committees that affect students have student representation and we take their opinion very seriously. For example, when we appointed our new warden (the head of Goldsmiths) the student union president was on the panel making that decision.

It was nice to receive some good feedback from students, they thought that feedback on the coursework was quick, staff were good at replying to student emails and they liked the newly upgraded online learning environment, particularly that it automatically sent reminders about their coursework deadlines. But there are always things that can be improved. The students asked that more courses make use of the online learning environment and for more evening access to our labs. It’s now my job to try and make these things happen. I can’t promise to be able to do everything the students ask for, but I will always do my best. Only by continually getting feedback from students and continually trying to improve our courses will we get the best possible student experience.

Marco

(Director of Studies)