I was at the Santa Fe Institute on Friday, where they were filming for
Melanie Mitchell's MOOC.
Also, I have been getting into MOOs a bit lately, and noticed many were set
up partially or fully for educational purposes; has anyone here some
experience with how well they worked? Wikipedia lists the
Here's the MIT News version of the conference Friedman attended,
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/edx-summit-0306.html, via ACM TechNews.
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On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Barry MacKichan
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
… Coming in at the tail of this (I have my mail program
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
FRIAM
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
...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Edward Angel
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:44 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage
I suspect it may be only the beginning of Nick's nightmare.
There really are gifted people who can teach
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
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Was your experience different from that?
N
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Edward Angel
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 4:44 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage
I suspect it may be only
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
Interesting MOOC discussion .. starting with one of the best courses I've
taken, Michael Sandel's political philosophy course Justice. I'm sending
a scrape of the NYT page due to their limited access policy.
The last sentence is the key:
When outstanding becomes so easily available, average
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on
Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with
what you know.
I think the most interesting line is, increasingly the world
sounds more like
the Nuremburg Rallies, than higher education.
Nick
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:31 PM
To: Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] The Professors Big Stage
Interesting MOOC discussion
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