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Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 07:27 PM EDT |
I've been doing some tutoring for college calculus with a
student in an
online course. The computerized aspects leave
much to be improved upon.
The course textbook costs the same as what you'd pay for a
hardback
college text, which is a lot, $200+. But the
"features" of the online text
are first, that it expires
when the semester is over, and second, that it logs
you out
every 45 minutes or so.
Also, being a college calculus textbook,
there's an Appendix
in the back of the book with a table of integrals. The
Appendix is missing in the online version.
I have seen this sort of thing
in other online courses
(disappearing course materials that you pay for above
and
beyond the tuition), and it disturbs me. Math and Stats
course materials
at the undergraduate level are _really_ not
evolving in any substantive
way.
But I'm afraid I've gotten myself worked up
now.
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- OpenCourseware checkout -- on my list - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 07:36 PM EDT
- I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 08:44 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 08:55 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: PJ on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 10:26 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 11:05 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:11 AM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: mpellatt on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 07:12 AM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: lnuss on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 07:47 AM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 11:49 AM EDT
- Amen. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 12:50 PM EDT
- But, is it important to know how to set up the problem, or just that one can ... search - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:26 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 11:43 AM EDT
- Math Skills Always Lag Current Course - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:02 PM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 09:03 AM EDT
- Re: I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:37 PM EDT
- Einstein made mistakes too - Authored by: Tolerance on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 02:00 AM EDT
- I have not tutored, but I teach. - Authored by: MadTom1999 on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 12:05 PM EDT
- Bravo! - Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:36 PM EDT
- You have triggered two other arguments - Authored by: artp on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:46 PM EDT
- I have only good things to say - Authored by: Tolerance on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:44 AM EDT
- Sadly, that's par for the course - Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:35 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 08:02 PM EDT |
Edx.org is done by Mit, Harvard, and a few others, is free,
and if you complete the courses, you get a printed
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- Another option - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 08:13 PM EDT
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Authored by: lnuss on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 09:16 PM EDT |
Of course there's not much to correct, but...
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Authored by: lnuss on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 09:17 PM EDT |
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Authored by: SirHumphrey on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 04:34 AM EDT |
Parallel Computing
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/
Tutorials Link
https://computing.llnl.gov/?set=training&page=index#training_materials
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 10:05 AM EDT |
I'm going to MIT in 1990, refreshing my linear algebra.
It's just like college, except I can bring my, er,
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Authored by: hAckz0r on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 02:01 PM EDT |
Here are a few more for anyone that enjoys learning:
physicsstream.ucsd.edu
slac.
stanford.edu
khanacademy.org
stanford.edu
archive.org
ll.mit.edu
video
videolectures.net
mit_ocw
videolectures.net tudelft_ocw
videolectures.net uci_ocw
videolectures.net
Physics
podcasts.ox.ac.uk
all
unctv.org
So much to do, so
little time...
--- The Investors IP Law: The future health of a
Corporation is measured as the inverse of the number of IP lawsuits they are
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Authored by: Steve on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:45 PM EDT |
This "Open Courseware" is not open as most members of Groklaw understand the
term. Whether you look at it through the lens of the Free Software Foundation,
the Open Source Initiative, or the Debian guidelines, these courses are neither
Free nor Open. They are gratis ("free as in beer"), and they are sharable under
certain restrictions, but that's not the same thing.
Let's use the FSF's
Free Software
Definition as an example. FSF sets forth a list of freedoms that must be
respected.
The MIT courses are placed under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. Most of those
terms are fine, but NonCommercial violates the Free Software
Definition.
To quote from FSF: "Thus, you should be free to redistribute
copies, either with or without modifications, either gratis or charging a fee
for distribution, to anyone anywhere." The CC NonCommercial term violates that
precept and similarly violates the OSI and Debian protocols.
Other
universities place similar restrictions; in fact, most of them use the same
license (CC-BY-NC-SA). But that kind of repackaging, remixing, and
redistribution for a fee is precisely a core freedom of Free/Libre and Open
Source thinking.
The universities could have used a truly
free/libre/open license like CC-BY-SA. They chose to use a non-free, non-open
license and then apply the intentionally confusing moniker "Open
Courseware."
That seems like something important to point
out. --- IAALBIANYL [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: capt.Hij on Thursday, April 18 2013 @ 11:12 AM EDT |
So I tried to search the web to get information on this
online course directory. I cannot find a way for faculty to
submit their own courses for inclusion and could not find a
way for an institution to try to register so that their
faculty could register. They offer links to modifiable
content (w/ restrictions on commercial use) but it does not
seem to be much more than that.
How can I find more information on it?
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Authored by: ian.waring on Friday, April 19 2013 @ 07:48 AM EDT |
10gen use the edX platform to deliver their free, 7 week long, 10
hours/week
"MongoDB for Developers" and "MongoDB for DBA" courses. I'm
completed both, as
have over 10,000 people to date. The Developers Course
comes in both Python and
Java variants. Really well executed, and thoroughly
recommended.
Details/registration at 10gen
Education [ Reply to This | # ]
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