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" <g...@ropella.name> wrote:
>
> 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 interact with became lifelong teachers to me.
> I'm still friends with most of them.
>
> Frankly, I get very little out of lectures. If it's not interactive and
> exploratory, it's largely wasted on me. The only reason I survived my
> 1st two college years was because my high school classes covered much of
> that material and I was too chicken to try to test out of those classes.
> There was a horrifying bridge period the second half of my second year
> in college and much of my third year that tested my resolve. I did very
> poorly. Then it picked up quite a bit when I started taking classes
> where thought was valued over testing skills.
>
> Nicholas Thompson wrote at 03/07/2013 04:03 PM:
> > I am curious to know what the folks on this list think an education
> > consists in. For me, it consisted in
> >
> > (1) Many large lectures of which most were stultifying beyond
> > belief, but of which a few were inspiring.
> >
> > (2) A few settings where I made direct contact with professors (or
> > good TA;s) and was taught how to do stuff and my work was critiqued in
> > meaningful ways.
> >
> > (3) Many, many interactions with very smart peers in which they
> > taught me and I got to try my ideas out on them.
> >
> >
> >
> > Was your experience different from that?
>
>
> --
> =><= glen e. p. ropella
> I came up from the ground, i came down from the sky,
>
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