Re: [Phys-L] Who is driving on-line ed?

[Richard Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

The thing is, YOU know how to learn. You know how to listen and watch 
and how to internalize this kind of material.  (I've done 20 Great 
Courses lecture series over the past three years just driving back and 
forth to campus.) Unfortunately it is all too obvious that many of our 
current students do not have these skills and I really, really can't 
believe they are learning much in their online courses.  Yes, this is a 
very useful means of delivery for the mature and experienced learner 
and/or the really motivated.  Not sure about the masses! :-(

rwt

On 2/27/2014 10:33 AM, brian whatcott wrote:
> On 2/26/2014 6:57 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > /snip/  Online courses enable colleges to enroll students and 
> > "deliver content" inexpensively, since they don't require classrooms, 
> > parking spaces, restrooms, or, in some cases, even faculty offices. 
> > /snip/
>
> Which reminds me: yesterday I spent two pleasant hours in watching an 
> MIT lecture on beginning Algorithms - peak finding in 1-D and 2-D and 
> the time cost associated with those endeavors.
>
> In a sunny book-filled study room of a coffee house and seated in a 
> reclining armchair, I needed to replay half of the the chalk and talk 
> when sleep overcame my attention.
>
> Brian Whatcott     Altus OK
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