BeepCollege core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself
NorthWestWindIdk if this is specific to computer science or engineering, but the higher level CS courses I’ve taken basically stop caring. Most of them even make the lecture slides available for the general public. You can just access it, like my networking course just throws the slides to GitHub.
bennypr0faneThanks for sharing, I can put that to good use in the classes I’m about to take! That’s an intro class though? Maybe it would be even worse if they did it the other way round: leaving beginner students hanging, wait till half drop out and only care for the survivors in advanced classes.
Oh I actually linked the wrong course. That one was for intro to OS. This here is the networking one: github.com/henryhxu/CSCI4430
Thanks!
So everyone, being an adult, can learn at their own pace in a way that is most efficient to them?
I think what I find most valuable with education is something that is an immersive collaborative experience. I suppose it’s contingent on what you teach but I only put up power points until a week or two after the course so that people can come and experience education and learn together. From my pedagogy courses that I’ve had to take there’s a lot of evidence of how information is better retained when in person.
My enjoyment of teaching comes from having an interactive relationship with my students. I mostly find students who take these huge courses where you get the PowerPoints to just kind of slide it into an AI chatbot and then never come to class.
I realize though that everyone is different and I am not in CS. I don’t mean to create a blanket statement but if I had to take classes like that I would enjoy teaching and being a student much less.
No, that’s a fair point. I had super interesting classes, where I was the only one attending. And I had classes where I knew the lecture hall was full, but I figured after the first lecture that I’ll just sit at home, with the script, unlimited coffee, unlimited google access, and be done with the content in half the time.
Even some more renowned universities do that too. Sometimes if a course is being taught poorly I can go look up slides from like Stanford or something.
I think the higher level courses simply require too much basic knowledge to understand anyway, so putting it out there will allow people in similar level to help out each other, but people who don’t have the basics will still not understand.