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by skhunted 2y ago
I think grading is obsolete. Grade inflation increased a lot the past 30 years. Ironically, it has increased the least at the least prestigious colleges. Pass/fail is the way to go. Don’t know if this would mess up things like appl
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by skhunted 2y ago
This is because 100-200 level math courses are not about teaching anything, but about filtering out students who can't do the work. This is 100% incorrect.
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’ve done this but then you end up with students who are not used to “thinking”. They do bad on the test. Now I’m known as a hard teacher. Now people avoid my classes. Administration hounds me for having s low passing rate. I need a jo
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by skhunted 2y ago
Around 50% of higher education in the United States is done at community colleges. Tuition accounts for 2/3 of our budget. State subsidy for 1/3. In the past the numbers were reversed. Enrollment in higher education went throug
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by skhunted 2y ago
For online courses it is no longer the case that exams are proctored in person. Most higher education in the United States is done at community colleges and regional state universities.
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by skhunted 2y ago
….and data-driven propaganda (= cheating dumb people out of their votes). I like the phrasing you used.
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In the old days the money public colleges got to operate overwhelmingly came from the state. Now it comes overwhelmingly from tuition.
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by skhunted 2y ago
You can't "not sign up" for linear algebra if it's in your curriculum. Same in the U.S. but you can sometimes find an online offering. If you don’t know what you are doing or don’t care then always take the online off
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by skhunted 2y ago
Yes. But people now teaching at higher education institutions need their classes to fill. That means we need to treat our students as if they are our customers. We must please the customer. In years past the attitude was that society at
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by skhunted 2y ago
Roughly 50% of higher education occurs at community colleges. We don’t do research. What you pay for the class does not correspond to what I make. I’m not paid enough to do all the stuff that is suggested in the comments. The top earning
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’ve been teaching in higher education for 30 years and am soon retiring. I teach math. In every math course there is massive amounts of cheating on everything that is graded that is not proctored in a classroom setting. Locking down bro
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by skhunted 2y ago
What you say is correct but isn't it the case that numerical solutions necessarily involve approximations and the error in those approximations in some systems becomes too great over time. Thus the predictive power isn't there fo
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by skhunted 2y ago
His lectures are terrible explanations and he doesn’t use professional looking graphics. Khan Academy is not a good product. My opinion refers solely to the math content.
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by skhunted 2y ago
I’ve done things like this. Back when Flash was around and Captivate was first out I created interactive lecture videos. One in particular was, I thought, really good. It was an explanation of how progressive tax systems work and how the
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by skhunted 2y ago
You don’t know whether or not I’m good at my job. A well reasoned response would be different than the one you gave.
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by skhunted 2y ago
3Blue1Brown’s videos are great and a treasure. I’m glad he does what he does.
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by skhunted 2y ago
..why you're so strongly convinced that there's no room for improvement over the status quo. I didn’t make this claim. I said that videos like 3Blue1Brown’s videos would not work in the classroom for most students. I further s
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by skhunted 2y ago
Here’s a thought for you. What percentage of the population wants to be mathematically literate given the amount of effort needed to gain that literacy? In my 30 years of teaching math at the college level the anecdotal evidence I have is
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by skhunted 2y ago
Yes. But in the classroom most students don’t want to learn. Hence my statement that it wouldn’t work in the classroom.
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Khan Academy uses lectures.
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What’s wild is people who haven’t taught thinking they know better than people who do teach.
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by skhunted 2y ago
The vast majority of students never ask, “what if…” The vast majority just want to know the mechanics of doing the problems well enough to pass the test. At the time a student is taking Calculus 1 they don’t ask questions about why it wor
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by skhunted 2y ago
What are those valid alternatives that work at scale for a majority of the population?
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by skhunted 2y ago
Efficacy, maximal effectiveness over a large population, and because it works better at scale than other solutions.
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by skhunted 2y ago
Pretty much everyone has ideas and opinions on teaching and what would work. It is easy to tell when such opinions are made by people with no experience teaching. In the same way a professional carpenter can tell when some wood work was d
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by skhunted 2y ago
I do not. I do have a sense of the notion and make decisions for myself on whether or not something is worth my time. While her video might be accurate in this case her past casts doubt in my mind and as such I’ve decided not to watch it.
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by skhunted 2y ago
When people don’t have expertise in an area they are prone to making really dumb comments. She has a history of this on other topics. As such I think it’s appropriate to mention so that people can evaluate how much weight/time they w
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by skhunted 2y ago
Went to the site and saw “Nigger” floating around. Anonymity emboldens people. I guess this is why moderation is always needed.
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by skhunted 2y ago
His opinion is correct or incorrect independent on whether or not he acts on his opinions.
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by skhunted 2y ago
The correctness of his point is independent of him being or not being a hypocrite.

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