Regarding: >> Holberton shakes up tech education with Melbourne campus >> By Tim Biggs November 23, 2021 >> https://www.theage.com.au/technology/holberton-shakes-up-tech-education-with-melbourne-campus-20211122-p59aup.html
David writes, > Reflecting on the nine years I spent with my colleagues as casual academics > teaching > Software Engineering at second-year University level, all those unpaid hours > we spent > marking Group submissions and then defending those written (in my case, at > least) > assessments to Students, I now realise what a waste of time it all was for us > all... (:-) > > Is this another Morrison Initiative? P.S. Sorry about the necessity to > resend, > obviously I haven't done Mr Goutallier's course. Cheers, David Lochrin The glowing news item regarding the Holberton software course must indeed appear ironic for you David, especially after your extensive experience educating in this area. It makes your humour doubly ironic, self-depreciating and well appreciated by Linkers. But, I guess the point is how good/effective/worthwhile is the learning experience on offer, compared with more traditional pedagogy/andragogy? Being a retired educator myself, I’m well aware that peer-group project-based learning can be hit and miss, the blind leading the blind resulting in enormous gaps in graduate professional knowledge. So, I guess time will tell how good the courses on offer actually are? At this stage, it’s hard to tell for eg https://www.coursereport.com/schools/holberton-school#reviews Cheers, Stephen _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
