Dr. Omwami was a wonderful, inspiring, and engaging lecturer. Her slides were extremely dense, as were the required readings (which are all posted online) but her storyteller method of teaching always kept my attention. When I took this variable topic (Contemporary Issues in Education in Africa), it was a hybrid course with mostly graduate students and a few undergraduate students. But Dr. Omwami was reasonable in all of her expectations of her students, flexible, and lenient. One of my favorite professors at UCLA.

This is possibly the worst class in the education department. How she is allowed to serve as an instructor at this institution is beyond me.

To begin with, this class should not be in the education department. It is a macroecon/IDS class at best. She spends the first 5 weeks talking about lending policies of the World Bank and loans, and other stuff. Basically, I spend forever just trying to understand the technical mumble jumble.

Additionally, this class is just horrible. The classes are so dry. She creates powerpoints, if you could call them that to present to the class. They are white slides filled with as much text as she could fit. She spends two hours (while thinking its been 10 minutes) rambling, then tries to rush through the slides. Honestly, nobody would go to this class if attendance wasn't part of your grade.

She also cannot work the class website. She sends readings via email, often the day before class, then gets mad when it seems that nobody has been unable to complete the readings. I suggested that she post the pdf's online in advance, but that made little difference. Apparently, it is somehow our responsibility to find the readings. She also refuses to post the powerpoints on the website. She will sporadically email them out, occasionally accompanied by a picture of the "notes" she wrote on the board.

Her exams are on a south campus style format. One multiple choice exam in 4th and 7th week. These are a joke. The TA's have no idea what is important, because they can't understand her either. For the first test, I studied for 12 hours and made a 14 page study guide just to try to make sense of the information. I got a B+. The second exam, I studied for an hour and got an A. Her extra credit questions save people's grades.

The take home exam is also a joke, as are all of the assignments. She gives no feedback. Is a terrible instructor, has no idea how to effectively engage students, and really should not be in the education department.

I think that she should take a class with some of the other amazing Education professors, and see the work that they do. Maybe then she would have some idea of how a college class, at UCLA should be run.

As a junior, this might have been the worst OVERALL class experience I have ever had. I recommend taking any other class. I have never received a class grade lower than an A- in my time at UCLA, and I honestly have no idea what to expect from this disaster.

The most boring and un-engaging, education studies class I have ever taken. If there wasn't any credit for attendance, nobody would show up to class. She reads off powerpoints that are not even organized and filled from top to bottom with text. Sadly, I'm not even exaggerating. Avoid if possible.