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> Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university. Lots of people think they learn be

> Yet my recently hired collegue insists he spent more time learning from Youtube than from lectures at "proper" university. Lots of people think they learn better from eloquent teachers (on Youtube or otherwise), and while that helps, it is far from sufficient to attain mastery of a subject. Mastery is achieved when you do; do practice problems, do timed tests, discuss concepts with those better, equal or worse than you, etc. The value add of teachers at your school/university is that they assign problems to you at the average skill level of the class, and they give space for discussions, but most importantly change the difficulty of the course, or go over stuff in a different way if you fail to understand. If you want to create good remote education, you will have to at least create these values as well.

ccortes 6y ago
> Mastery is achieved when you do This is the important thing. I learned how to code on my own by reading/watching tutorials, then picking a project and working on it solving all the issues that come up. This works great but there's one huge catch: you need to have a TON of motivation, otherwise you'll drop it halfway because some times there's no one to guide you, to simplify things, explain another way, etc once you run into something you just don't get. By your own it can take 2 weeks solving an issue that could just take a couple of hours if there was someone to guide you more personally. I managed to learn a lot of things this way at 18-19 year old, if I doudbt I could pull it off when I was younger than that when I had interests like football or being a rockstar.
rgblambda 6y ago
>>Lots of people think they learn better from eloquent teachers (on Youtube or otherwise) There's a term for this: The Dr Fox Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect

ccortes 6y ago

> Mastery is achieved when you do This is the important thing. I learned how to code on my own by reading/watching tutorials, then picking a project and working on it solving all the issues that come up. This works great but there's one huge catch: you need to have a TON of motivation, otherwise you'll drop it halfway because some times there's no one to guide you, to simplify things, explain another way, etc once you run into something you just don't get. By your own it can take 2 weeks solving an issue that could just take a couple of hours if there was someone to guide you more personally. I managed to learn a lot of things this way at 18-19 year old, if I doudbt I could pull it off when I was younger than that when I had interests like football or being a rockstar.

rgblambda 6y ago

>>Lots of people think they learn better from eloquent teachers (on Youtube or otherwise) There's a term for this: The Dr Fox Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect