Reviews of professor Lecia Barker

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Lectures were mandatory but I learned nothing throughout the entire course. She spent lectures demonizing technology and then attempting to teach us how to use it. There was also a ridiculous amount of homework and we had to sit in certain sections of the lecture hall, which felt ridiculous for a college class. Wish I could give her a 0.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Information Ecosystems was maybe the worst class I have taken. The prof has a rambling problem, and instead of having engaging classes, makes attendance and "participation" mandatory. The material could be interesting, if presented by a different professor, and contextualized within the major. As is, the class is an outlier who's value I don't see.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly one of the worst professors Ive ever had, if your in zoom then she requires cameras for credit, shes obsessed with putting people into small groups, and the material taught just seems disjointed and not useful to learn. I probably should have checked her rating before registering, because its 100% correct

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She seems like a genuinely kind person but her lectures and assignments are confusing. Also, the recitations are useless and make the lessons even more confusing. There is a final but the questions were based off of random, specific content that were worded in biased, awkward ways. Overall, the class was boring and I honestly did not learn much.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Its possible Prof. Barker was not well received by her online students, as I'm sure teaching mass classes via Zoom is a nightmare. Having her in person was so great. I would even go as far as to say that 99% of her in-person students loved her. It was a safe, welcoming learning environment that felt like a community. She even learned all our names.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The content of Professor Barker's class was fairly interesting, but her lectures can be a bit dry. If data isn't your thing then you might not enjoy this module of CMCI 1010 very much, but some parts are still interesting. You are required to write a printed report on the readings for every single lecture which can be tedious, but it's not too bad.