That might work for a beginning computer course. I don't think it would work
well in other fields. Also, a single credit is rarely of much use to a student
and when students try to transfer credits, the usual process requires them to
show there is an equivalent course at the college where they w
Ruth Chabay makes an important comment about the credit issue, one that
hasn't come up in this discussion so far. As I said before, we went all the
way through Udacity's CS 101 "course", which was excellent. After Ed
correctly pointed out that this and the Udacity computer graphics "course"
are not
Ed,
Cool --- and I think we are generally in agreement in this area as well
- again, with the exception of how radical a solution is required.
It is my belief that graduate students at Tier One research
institutions like UNM are getting a pretty solid education, a
professional network, and re
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
> Of course that's all true but I think you're wiggling out of the essence
> of the question. Is the student who is honest and sincere about becoming a
> computer scientist (but perhaps not focussed yet on some of the specific
> programs at dig
Dave,
Actually, I had only one very slight disagreement with you which I kind of
forgot about by the end of my email. I have no problem with what you are
proposing and should have pointed out how I agreed that one of the requirements
of all the possible ways we can improve the system is the com
Ed,
I am curious where you disagree / what you disagree with. I see one
thing in the post below that is inconsistent with my opinions as
stated. I did not address motivations, faculty, or economics - but
would agree with everything you said below in those regards.
The only point of potent
Of course that's all true but I think you're wiggling out of the essence of the
question. Is the student who is honest and sincere about becoming a computer
scientist (but perhaps not focussed yet on some of the specific programs at
digipen) better off going to digipen over UW? You can average y
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
>
> Let me ask you the following question: Do you think that the student who
> chooses digipen will get a better CS education that if she went to the
> University of Washington which has one of the top CS programs? How does the
> answer depend
There are a lot statistics for Engineering and CS salaries. I believe the major
factor is that while engineering/CS professor salaries have gone up at about
the same rate as those in industry, the typical teaching load has more than
dropped in half. Consequently, the cost of teaching a student h
One of my best former students just left Pixar after 15 years to join Digipen.
It will be interesting to talk to him at SIGGRAPH this summer. It's also
interesting that he received all his college education in public universities
before their costs became ridiculous.
Let me ask you the followi
I was so eager to correct Roger's typo that I made a typo of my own!
Concerning college costs, is it perhaps the case that in the 1950s college
professors were paid rather little and now are often paid fairly well? I
made a brief stab at digging out the data but didn't find quite what I was
lookin
digipen.com redirects to digipen.edu which is what I meant,
digipen.orgdoesn't open at all.
-- rec --
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Bruce Sherwood
wrote:
> Roger, it's digipen.org, not digipen.com.
>
> Bruce
>
>
> FRIAM Applied Co
http://digipen.edu, anyone?
:-)
On Mar 31, 2013, at 12:55 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> The rankings at http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings are
> interesting, because I run out of non-US universities that I recognize in the
> rankings long before I run out of US universities tha
Roger, it's digipen.org, not digipen.com.
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The rankings at http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings are
interesting, because I run out of non-US universities that I recognize in
the rankings long before I run out of US universities that don't appear in
the rankings. When I visited the site last spring they were listing
tuition co
Ed's post is highly cogent, and based on tons of experience. One of his
points that I had missed in my own analysis is the key difference between
an on-line course taken by on-campus students and remote students who lack
the supporting social infrastructure and may be consumed by job and life
respo
Dave,
I don't think interesting describes my response to this post. More like
disgusted. I would have said outraged but I'm getting too used to seeing
nonsense on the web to respond as I used to. Although I agree with most of the
points you and Bruce made, I disagree in a couple of important pl
David,
Looks like a powerful, if complex, model to me.
It even recovers some of the aspects of the apprenticeship model that
have been lost - especially that of *community* - that take
apprenticeship even beyond mentoring. Your model seems to imply the
necessity of community in the education
So then what is a good system for learning? Self-driven research?
Mentorships? Symposia?
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On Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 09:57 AM, Grant Holland wrote:
> David,
>
> What is YOUR opinion on the matter? Do you, or are you intending to,
> teach any MOOCs or other online programs? Does Highlands offer, or plan
> to offer any. (I assume you are still at Highlands.)
>
I left Highlands in Dece
I developed and taught an on-line introductory physics course which is
still being taught by colleagues at NCSU. The course is a distance version
for in-service high school physics teachers of the Matter & Interactions
curriculum created by Ruth Chabay and me. The goal of the distance course
is not
Thanks, Owen, for posting something that has to do with the "real" world.
"Here Comes Everybody" as Shirky would say. The advent of e-learning is the
single most democratizing event in decades!
I just signed a contract in Canada to write the curriculum for the Complexity
module as part of a
David,
What is YOUR opinion on the matter? Do you, or are you intending to,
teach any MOOCs or other online programs? Does Highlands offer, or plan
to offer any. (I assume you are still at Highlands.)
Thanks,
Grant
On 3/27/13 9:19 AM, Prof David West wrote:
those discussing MOOCs recently,
those discussing MOOCs recently, might find this interesting
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/72-of-professors-who-teach-online-courses-dont-think-their-students-deserve-credit/
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