I taught our Functional Programming class last Fall by having the students watch Martin Odersky's Functional Programming in Scala course. I met with them once a week in small groups to discuss the homework assignments. (In this course too you submit the homework exercises which are run on new data.) I like the result. I thought the lectures didn't match the homework as well as they might have, though. I think some of the students didn't like being on the spot every week. Also at least one sstudent was very angry that I wasn't lecturing. His course evaluation complained about how lazy the professor was. (In fact I watched all the lectures, did all the homeworks, and prepared explanations for them. As it turned out, this was quite a bit of work, which had to be done in "real time" as the course proceeded. It also took more of my time to see the students in small groups than it would have to lecture to them all at once. But then professors are often not appreciated.)
All-in-all I liked the approach and plan to use it again. *-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki <http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/> and the courses I teach *_____________________________________________* On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 offering. In any case, "Your results may differ." > > Bruce > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Curt McNamara <[email protected]> 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 >> >> https://www.coursera.org/course/modelthinking >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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