ASB ironien – Skoleeksempel på hvordan man ikke bør gøre?

Har du nogensinde oplevet problemer på Aarhus School of Business (ASB)? Eller hørt om nogen, der har haft problemer på ASB? Synes du at ASB har problemer?

Det gør jeg! Nu har jeg efterhånden læst på ASB i næsten 5 år (siden 2005), og jeg oplever ofte problemer, som jeg synes er fuldstændig ironiske i forhold til at ASB er en institution, der netop underviser i ledelse, organisation, strategi, kommunikation, økonomi og mange flere aspekter af den dagligdag man kan være i berøring med, når man kommer i arbejde. Alligevel oplever jeg gang på gang, at ASB fejler på et eller flere af tidligere nævnte områder, som institutionen bryster sig med, at være blandt Europas førende indenfor. Det virker dybt ironisk, at man ikke benytter sig af den viden man besidder, og at ASB på den måde bliver et skoleeksempel på hvordan man i hvert fald ikke bør gøre.

Nu lyder det måske meget værre end det egentlig er, men med den lille appetitvækker vil jeg lægge op til debat på området. Det er min hensigt at indsamle så meget viden om problemer, som studerende og lektorer på ASB har været ude for. Derfor ville det være en stor hjælp, hvis du havde lyst til at skrive om din oplevelse med problemer på ASB. (more…)

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ASB valgfagsordning eller lotteri?

I går, den 1. december 2009, modtog jeg et venligt brev fra Aarhus School of Business (ASB), hvor jeg blev gjort opmærksom på at jeg desværre ikke havde fået mit ønskede valgfag. Problemet bestod i at det hold jeg havde meldt mig til var blevet overbooket og man derfor havde trukket lod om pladserne i blandt alle tilmeldte.

Jeg læste rigtig nok, at der ville blive trukket lod om pladserne i tilfælde af overbookning, men jeg havde nok ikke tænkt så meget over det. Især ikke fordi jeg i forvejen havde været i god tid med at læse fagbeskrivelser og finde ud af hvad jeg ville. Derfor kunne jeg også, så snart det blev muligt, sætte kryds i det fag jeg helst ville have. Jeg skrev mig op mindre end en time efter det var muligt, og synes derfor at jeg var i rigtig god tid.

Nu står jeg så i stedet og skal vælg imellem de resterende valgfag, som ikke er blevet overbooket, fordi jeg ved lodtrækning blev en af de uheldige. Hvordan kan det være rigtigt, at man på en institution der bryster sig med at være blandt Europas bedste, kan lave en valgfagsordning på den måde. Hvad med at belønne dem der havde havde valgt i god tid, og så lukket for tilmeldingen til det hold?

ASB – Hvordan kan I forsvare at der bliver trukket lod imellem tilmeldte til et overbooket fag? Man går jo heller ikke i Brugsen for at se hvor mange der skal have mælk, og hvis der så ikke er mælk nok til alle, trækker man lod blandt resten af de mælkeprodukter, der er tilbage når butikken lukker!

Tags: Aarhus School of Business, lodtrækning, valgfag
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Campusnet – Ideas from a Student/User

At my university (Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus) students have to use a system called Campusnet. The purpose of this system is to make it easier for lectors and students to communicate. The lectors can upload syllabuses, assignments and so on. The students can see their class schedule, exams, hand in assignments etc. The system is actually very good, however, there is definitely room for improvement.

The university suggests that students use the calendar provided by Campusnet, to keep track of appointments and other things that might or might not be related to the university. I found out, while trying to understand why they wouldn’t make Skemahapser an official solution. The problem here is that it is impossible to have an appointment which is continued until a specific date at an interval. If I wanted to put in my workout program, I would have to type every single event into the calendar.

-> So one good change would be to be able to create appointments which can be continued until a specific date at an interval. And to make it easier to subscribe to Campusnet calendar.

All lectors have their own way of writing a syllabus and other information that students need in the coming term regarding information on lectures, books and reading materials. This means that all students has to print out a syllabus, and a weekly schedule into which they can put the details of what needs to be done for the lecture. 

-> Instead Campusnet should provide a form for all the lectors to fill in with details of the coming term. The form could hold details arranged by lesson; lesson, topic, reading material (book pages/ articles), assignments, other, notes. This way all syllabuses would have the same layout, making it easier for the student and the lector. At the same time Campusnet could set up a function to cross-reference the students classes with the syllabus and schedule. This should make it possible to give the student a overview of what had to be prepared for every lecture.

A really great thing would be if all universities wouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel every time they wanted a new thing. ASB is a member of EQVIS and other certificates, which shows that the school is up to international standards. So why do they not have a system which has international standards and is the same at all the institutions that carry these certificates. That would be a great help for all lectors and students.

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ASB, problems with communication

The office of examinations had made a change to in my exam schedule 8 days before I was going to the exam. They are allowed to change the exams up till one week before the actual exam date. We, the students, have to look for the changes as Aarhus School of Business (ASB) is not imposed to inform about any changes.

This meant that I, tuesday evening, was informed by one of my co-students that our exam started tuesday morning at 9 a.m. So Wednesday morning I went to the office to ask weather I would be allowed to attend the exam when I hadn’t been there to get the paper the previous day. Our staff is very pleasant and said that it would not be a problem. I would just loose one day. Luckily for me we have got a whole week to do this exam so that meant six days for me.

Although I know that Im supposed to keep myself informed about the exams, I still think it is unreasonable that the days may be change up till one week before the examination date. And I is directly contradicting with the governments idea of having the students finish studying as fast as possible when they do not even bother to inform us about changes! It all works electronically, so it is not very difficult to send a message to the students affected by the change.

Tags: Aarhus School of Business
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