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Switching to exams in person and more presentation-based exams is how you get around this. You can pay someone to write a paper, but its hard to then show maste
by kesselvon 5y ago
Switching to exams in person and more presentation-based exams is how you get around this. You can pay someone to write a paper, but its hard to then show mastery of that topic in a discussion with your professor.
That would require professors to show interest in teaching, so I doubt universities would go for it. It doesn't scale and they're not interested in adequate staffing.
- namelessoracle 5y agoProfessors do everything in their power not to teach. A sign that you've "made it" as a Professor is not having to teach at all for several semesters and just getting to do research.
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>Professors do everything in their power not to teach. Not all of them, but many.
- wilsonthewhale 5y agoA great example of this is how Dijkstra used to conduct final examinations where students basically showed up and had a real-time, in-person discussion with him. It must have taken forever to get through everyone, and probably isn't feasible anymore with modern class sizes. I think a good approximation is project work, and then requiring presentation of said work. Normal exams don't really cut it.
- swiley 5y agoThe university I went to allowed students to test out of the first three semesters of intro to programming classes (IE here's the compiler, this is what OOP is etc.) but you had to have an interview like this first. I felt extra qualified when I did it after having read through the SICP, it was kind of cool. I wish I had talked to my professors more but I felt like everything was so expensive I shouldn't mess with it.