And, alas, many university classes, especially in introductory courses at
large universities, bear little resemblance to the kind of ideal situation
Nick created and sustained but rather look a lot like Nick's nightmare.
Bruce
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On Mar 5,
[Sorry for late replies, I've got a problem with mail being late and even
out of order.]
I think its turned into a sibling of IRC, where folks chat continuously on
very specific topics.
Hi S/N for me:
- I read about asm.js, so tried the official coffeescript gmail group,
asking if asm.js might
Yeah, I noticed that .. these were new partnerships, apparently. They have
a list somewhere of all of them.
-- Owen
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On the coursera website, they say 62 universities have partnered with
coursera. What am I missing ?
Joe
Who said twitter has a low S/N?
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I suspect it may be only the beginning of Nick's nightmare.
There really are gifted people who can teach an exciting course to 1000
students. Any if 1000, why not 100,000 via a MOOC? Parents and students who are
paying $40,000 and more for tuition may wonder about where their money is going
if
Ed,
I am curious to know what the folks on this list think an education consists
in. For me, it consisted in
(1) Many large lectures of which most were stultifying beyond belief,
but of which a few were inspiring.
(2)A few settings where I made direct contact with professors
I only had 2 years of very large lectures freshman and sophomore years
of college. My k12 and the rest of college consisted mostly of your
(2), varying degrees of personal relationships with teachers.
My (3) was limited because I'm a kook and don't play well with others.
But the few peers I did
I was an undergrad at Caltech. Although there were only 200 new students each
year, for all the beginning science and math classes, we were all put in one
lecture. So
I agree with (1). There were Nobel laureates (Pauling and Feynman) who were
inspiring but most lectures were stultifying and
I had roughly equal numbers of lectures and tutorial sessions at Reed for
two years, almost entirely tutorials from then on. Math was entirely
taught in tutorial sessions. All tutorials were led by professors or
advanced undergraduates. All lecture courses had a tutorial component.
Most of the
Just curious - how many of you have actually signed up for and completed a
MOOC?
If the answer is not yet, then consider jumping onto Scott Pages excellent
model thinking course that is just starting.
Curt
https://www.coursera.org/course/modelthinking
On Mar 7, 2013 6:19 PM, glen
Why?
On Mar 7, 2013 9:03 PM, Curt McNamara curt...@gmail.com wrote:
Just curious - how many of you have actually signed up for and completed a
MOOC?
If the answer is not yet, then consider jumping onto Scott Pages excellent
model thinking course that is just starting.
Curt
To see what a MOOC is like, Ruth Chabay and I took the Udacity CS 101
course.
We were impressed by the course design. The description of the course said
that In about 7 weeks you will build a small search engine, even if you've
never written a computer program before. This goal statement is very
I forgot to mention that a few months ago Ruth started the Scott Page
course with high expectations but eventually dropped it with
disappointment. However, she perceived that Page didn't receive nearly the
kind of infrastructure support that Evans had received from Udacity, at
least in that first
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