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Great. I took a Coursera course last month, and despite a couple of weirdnesses, it was a really enjoyable experience. I don't really get Udacity, but I'm defi
by HarrietJones 14y ago
Great.
I took a Coursera course last month, and despite a couple of weirdnesses, it was a really enjoyable experience. I don't really get Udacity, but I'm definitely going to take a couple more of these courses.
It also appears as though they're starting to figure out how to mark essays, etc without involving huge numbers of lecturers. It's an exciting time for eduction.
- mapleoin 14y agoI'm curious to know how are they marking essays. Can you say more about it? Links are fine, too. EDIT: Oh, nevermind, I've found it. It seems that student grade each other's essays - one student grades three other students. Look here, under Peer Evaluation: http://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fantasysf/Documents/WorkExpectations.html http://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/fantasysf/Documents/Wor...
- waterlesscloud 14y agoI'm signed up for that particular class and I've been wondering how it was going to go. The workload looks reasonably significant, which I'm happy about. I'm a little skeptical of peer grading of essays, but it's something they've got to figure out for the future. Every class I've done so far has had a tiny minority of forum whining about grades. I'm expecting it to be notably higher in this class, but we'll see how it goes...