Complete thesis - Murdoch University

Simon In my opinion I learn more communication skills andin organizing and less in technical skills in this unit. So inmy opinion I learned neither more nor less in this unit, butdifferent things which I havent learned beforeVaughn Seriously I feel I have learnt a lot more useful things in thisunit compared to most of the other units I have taken at thisUniversity -- I am learning more, much more for reasons thatinclude:I have been working in a very good team and feel that some ofthe knowledge I have learnt has resulted from the interactionwith my team members i.e. I don’t believe the level ofunderstanding I now have, would have been achieved by working onthe assignments by myselfThe assignments being based around a problem gives a morerealistic context as opposed to some abstract exercise to testunderstanding of theoryI have found that the assignments have been an extension of theprevious one other and clearly a process that is being builtupon at every stage i.e. each additional stage in the processhas enlightened me to the relevance of the previous stage.This method of teaching has provided me with a framework that Ican use to identify future problems and develop solutions. Ihave noticed that the design studios require a lot more workfrom me than if I was working alone. For example I have to spendmore time working on problems because of the extra overhead ofworking in a team (meetings and social interaction). There isalso the need to do extra research to gain information that isnormally just handed out in a lecture. However I don’t mindputting in the extra effort because I feel the extra effort isworth it because I feel more confident that I do know thematerial (not an impostor) and can apply it to futuresituations364