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Situations like the Fall '18 AP2 ISDS 710 disaster, the tone-deaf Data Analytics concentration, Lin's 10 years out of date ISDS 705 autopilot course, lack of logical prerequisites, content quality due to the free textbook rule, the inconsistency of quality from one course to the next, and vast inconsistency of instruction between sections of the same course are real problems.

I have only completed 3 courses thus far (MADM 760, ACCT 701, MADM 752) and it does really surprise me about the outdated material. It was my expectation that any current MBA program would be offering material 2-3 years old. Some of the reference material is 10+ years old and is almost irrelevant at this point.

As far as textbooks go, I had a law prof at UF (Go Gators!) that wrote his own textbook and it was as scatter-brained as he was. There was no way to follow it. They may be good professors but maybe they should not be writing their own text book unless they have a background in it.

Hopefully LSUS listens to the course evaluations and are trying to make it better for future attendees.

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Posted by GeauxUF

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Posted on 12/17/18 at 1:39 pm to Menace1069

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As far as textbooks go, I had a law prof at UF (Go Gators!) that wrote his own textbook and it was as scatter-brained as he was. There was no way to follow it. They may be good professors but maybe they should not be writing their own text book unless they have a background in it.

I had a few of those as well at UF (Go Gators!). I started out pre-law there, and professors with their own textbooks were common, especially in courses like Sociology and Psych.

At LSUS, James offers a self-written textbook, but it's incomplete and has to be supplemented. Vines types a wall of text into a Moodle page instead of using a textbook.

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Hopefully LSUS listens to the course evaluations and are trying to make it better for future attendees.

My understanding from talking to administrators in the MBA program is that the professors receive those evaluations directly. It is unknown how much of that information gets passed along to leadership above them.

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