The University of New South Wales
CSE Education Committee
Notice of Meeting
A meeting of the Computer Science and Engineering Education Committee
(CSE Education Committee 23/09)
will be held at 10:00am on Friday, 24 November 2023
fully online on Teams.
Enquiries concerning this agenda should be directed to John Shepherd, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.
John Shepherd
Committee Chair
Agenda
| Time | Item | Speaker |
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| 2 mins | 1. Opening of Meeting, recording of those present, and apologies
Apologies: Fethi, Wayne, Eric, Oliver, Morri, Basem |
John Shepherd |
| 2 mins | 2. Confirmation of Minutes of Previous Meeting held on 13 October 2023 | John Shepherd |
| 6 mins | 3. Review of Action Sheet | John Shepherd |
| ITEMS FOR DECISION | ||
| - | None | -|
| ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION | ||
| 20 mins | 5.1 Workload Model The proposed workload model did not achieve sufficient votes, so is not (yet) accepted. Are there any aspects of the model that people would like to change before we reconsider it? 2023 Workload Model |
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| 20 mins | 5.2 Future of Lectures Attendance at lectures this term (and probably for the whole of 2023) has been poor. For some courses, as low as 5% of the whole cohort. And this is happening in large lecture theatres that were timetabled based on the whole cohort size. The candy strategy did not improve attendance. Suggestions? Bonus point: if we decide to continue in large lecture theatres, the quality of their equipment/services needs to improve. Send me details of everything that went wrong in your lecture theatres during 2023. |
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| 10 mins | 5.3 Tute classes and Lab classes CSE is at the limit of lab capacity for running lab classes, and UNSW seems to be at the limit of CATS room capacity. Enrolments look set to (again) increase substantially in 2024. What are CSE/UNSW doing to mitigate? |
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| 10 mins | 5.4 Results Finalisation CSE has a reputation with academic admin as having the largest number of unfinalised results at the end of each term. This can partly be explained by the size of our courses, but that is no excuse. Can we develop better processes to ensure that marks are cleaned up and finalised at the end of each term? |
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| 10 mins | 5.5 Teaching allocation 2024 There's an initial attempt at teaching allocation for 2024. Fleshing this out more requires a workload model to check people's current workloads. The most pressing problems are finding convenors/lecturers for the following 24T1 courses: COMP1521(?), COMP2521, COMP9021. All of these are large core courses. |
ITEMS FOR NOTING AND INFORMATION |
| 5 mins | 6.1. Report(s) from Committees outside CSE | Anybody |
| 5 mins | 6.2. Report on Cyber Security Programs Working Group | Salil Kanhere |
| 5 mins | 6.3. Report on UNSW Online | Raymond Wong |
| ? mins | 6.4. Any Other Business | |
| 7. The next meeting will be held in 2024 | ||
| 8. Closure |