March 10, 2009
Posted by Ted Avery
UOIT Students – Participate in the Canadian University Report 2009 Survey
UOIT Students – Participate in the Canadian University Report 2009 Survey
Help give UOIT the excellent reputation it deserves! A valid UOIT e-mail address is required.
The Globe and Mail want to hear what you have to say about your university – from teaching assistants to technology services, professors to parking, athletics to extracurricular activities. The data collected will be published in The Globe and Mail and the results will be made available to UOIT to help identify ways to improve your overall educational experience.
Take the survey and you will automatically be entered to win:
One (1) $1,000 cash award
Two (2) $500 cash awards
The Canadian University Report takes just 15 to 20 minutes to complete – but you have to complete the survey before 12:00 midnight, April 30, 2009.
8 Comments
March 10, 2009
With my experience–and the experience of those in my program–I don't know if filling out this survey would help UOIT.
March 10, 2009
I was afraid of that… that's why I tried to imply that students should be leaving positive feedback. Things like this all contribute to UOIT's reputation and ultimately the reputation of your degree that you leave the school with, so in my opinion you are helping yourself by saying your degree comes from a good school.
I'm not saying to lie, because if you evaluate the education you are getting I think UOIT is definitely great. I'm saying not to focus on small issues in your university career and let them affect your feedback. I believe overall UOIT provides great education.
March 10, 2009
We are in different programs, so I cannot speak for your or any other program, but I have learned more about how a university functions than I have about game design from UOIT. My program didn't know what it wanted to be (programming? art? business? design?) and it has completely failed at turning us into any kind of specialist. I understand that this may be an exception, but UOIT did not provide a good or even satisfactory education to the 4th year game dev students.
Oh, and I will definitely not leave positive feedback. If UOIT is going to become a respected university it's not going to be because of a survey–it's going to be because students that graduated from there went on to do great things…that, or it gets rich corporate sponsors.
March 10, 2009
I've known plenty of people from my high school who decided to go to schools because of how they ranked in these surveys. I definitely think these kinds of things make an impact. But I can see where you are coming from, and I'm sorry to hear about your situation. I hope you and your classmates can find success.
March 13, 2009
Truthfully though, if my program is the only one at the school with this same problem I don't think it'll matter much. How many in my class would even fill this out? 1 or 2 maybe? They'd become outliers :p
March 13, 2009
In my experience, people are more vocal about things they don't like than things they do.
On an unrelated note, I finally started the translated Mother 3 today. Pretty cool!
March 14, 2009
Hahaha, excellent. You know, I've yet to play it. I bought the Japanese version and have only ever played through that one…which means that my understanding of the whole thing will probably be more limited than yours (even after 3 play-throughs).
March 14, 2009
Hahaha, excellent. You know, I've yet to play it. I bought the Japanese version and have only ever played through that one…which means that my understanding of the whole thing will probably be more limited than yours (even after 3 play-throughs).
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