Here's the MIT News version of the conference Friedman attended, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/edx-summit-0306.html, via ACM TechNews.
-- rec -- On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Barry MacKichan < [email protected]> wrote: > … Coming in at the tail of this (I have my mail program turned off most of > the day), but I have a few comments. > > I'm still trying to get my head around the concept of a "Socratic" course > delivered through a remote, time-shifted medium. Is it virtual-Socratic? > meta-Socratic? voyeur-Socratic? > > Several courses in the math PhD program at Stanford had students paid to > take official notes. It cost very little to Xerox these and save myself > many hours. Some lectures were pretty useless, but I went for the sake of > the ego of the lecturer. In a quarter course by Kunihiko Kodaira, I > understood only two words; "theolem" and "ploof". But he was a very nice, > earnest man, as well as a Fields Medal winner. > > > --Barry > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Owen Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > > You see, I was picked up at Logan Airport by my old friend Michael Sandel, > who teaches the famous Socratic, 1,000-student “Justice” course at Harvard, > which is launching March 12 as the first humanities offering on the > M.I.T.-Harvard edX online learning platform. > > > > ============================================================ > 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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