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Perhaps people appreciate this course because the prestigious Harvard school is behind it. I would traduce that bias by "a good school involves necessarily good
by jcq3 6y ago
Perhaps people appreciate this course because the prestigious Harvard school is behind it. I would traduce that bias by "a good school involves necessarily good courses" . Is it true though?
- valuearb 6y agoMy wife watched his class on the architecture of the internet. She’s not technical at all but was absorbed by it to the end. And I never told her it was from Harvard.
- ashtonbaker 6y agoWhich course is this? I feel like I've seen it but I'm not able to find it with an internet search.
- valuearb 6y agoI would like to find it too. I just related this story to my wife and she doesn’t remember watching it. I said “you were enraptured, and watched the whole thing?”! “Apparently it wasn’t that memorable“, she replied. Edit: Might be this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KghQP86Sw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_KghQP86Sw If so he’s updated it since we watched.
- ghaff 6y agoNot necessarily (although it often is, possibly because it's the rockstars who can afford the time and have the interest to play around with the MOOC thing). Early on with MOOCs, there was a Harvard literature course I was very excited about taking on Greek myth or something like that. I think I made it through about the first half of the first lecture. The whole thing felt incredibly pretentious and generally awful. (And, yes, I have taken literature courses at good colleges that were much more interesting.)