Dr Ian Wood
Faculty | Maths & Physics |
Courses Taught | STAT4401 |
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Faculty | Maths & Physics |
Courses Taught | STAT4401 |
Contact Email | - |
Phone Number | - |
Office | - |
46.5/100
Dr. Ian Wood is a brilliant lecturer who was always well prepared and more than happy to help with inquiries. Half way through the course, a second, less experienced lecturer took over, and he was more than willing to interject at times or to help responses to student questions, in order to ensure that students had the best experience possible in this course. Strongly recommend.
STAT1301
Took this course in second semester of 2021. I hated every lecture. Every lecture was from the workbook, so we had set work to go through, but Ian never got through that content and ended up rambling on long tangents that were not relevant to the course content. We would take half of the lecture to get through a simple question then he would have to rush through or skip harder ones. He was multiple weeks behind the prereading at some points in the semester. His hand writing was incomprehensible and working out messy. Sometimes he would do a completely different question in a question box so when you looked back on the notes you would have no idea what the working out was related too. Half way through the semester we had a lady named Sharon take over as lecturer, and he would constantly interrupt her and add his own remarks while she was lecturing. By the end, it was easier to watch crash course or khan academy in statistics then any Ian Wood lecture.
STAT1301
Sweet jesus this guy is bad. I didn't think it was possible for a lecturer to be detrimental to the course content. He routinely puts in zero effort to all course content he teaches, not making an effort to fix mistakes or fix his writing tool during the online lectures, instead opting to "just explain" which works wonders for those who didn't watch the lecture. If you can avoid this guy, do it.
STAT2201
Ian Wood is by far the most useless lecturer I have encountered at UQ.
He is an impressive example of how little work a lecturer can do and still maintain paid employment. Ian decided to "teach" an entire semester of STAT2201 by giving no lectures of his own, and instead directly referring the students to the previous year's lecture slides. There was zero contribution from Ian to any of the material, and to make matters worse, he changed the final exam format to his own tastes without providing or updating any teaching/learning content to cover the changes in the exam. Zero video tutorials, zero sample exam reviews, students went the entire COVID semester without ever even seeing Ian's face.
When consulted about errors in assignment marking and given quantitative numerical evidence on errors, he would ignore them and say the mark would remain unchanged. Marking was done entirely by his PhD student, not by him, maintaining his zero-contribution status.
Emails were never replied to over the whole semester, and then strangely a day before the final exam, he must have answered them all - incredibly poorly as expected. This showed that he was receiving emails but ignoring them entirely. It would have been smarter to not reply at all and pretend he never received them, but clearly Ian doesn't make up for his laziness with intelligence.
As the icing on the cake, Ian Wood didn't allow for a SeCAT teaching evaluation to be completed for his course. I was under the impression these were mandatory as every other subject I've undertaken has offered one - but UQ seems to have made course evaluations optional - and obviously Ian Wood didn't want his abysmal teaching made public knowledge.
I'm writing this review so there may be some documentation of what can only be described as blatant theft of students' tuition fee money ($1200+ per domestic student, far greater for international) by both UQ and Ian Wood.
Next time it would be great if UQ could hire someone who did literally ANYTHING, this would be an improvement over Ian Wood.
STAT2201
Very unorganized, his lecture notes are totally useless. He puts a lot of mathematical details while the course is a practical course. His assignments are unnecessarily long and time consuming.
DATA7202
Dr Ian Wood is the most knowledgeable and helpful lecturer I have ever met, because
- He makes the lecture so much more interesting
- He knows almost anything regarding the topics that he cover.
- He really wants his students to learn and grow
- Students can reach out to him at any hours during the day, and he is always willing to help.
Glad that he teaches one of the most important topics of Data Science course.
UQ needs more lecturers like him.
DATA7202
Dr Ian Wood is the best Lecturer I have ever come across.
1. He is extremely helpful - he sits with students even after lecture / prac hours to make students understand. Students can visit his cabin at any time for doubts - he is ready to help anytime
2. Highly knowledgeable. He knows almost everything in his field of lecture.
3. He makes lectures very interesting.
DATA7202