/tech/ - Technology

Thanks and bump

>>6310
Thanks. This is incredibly based, and should be archived, maybe off YouTube. It's very encouraging to finally see good college-grade free lessons. Hopefully we can have them for non-tech subjects also.

Why not just read a book? For me videos always felt really inconvenient for programming. Maybe because programming itself is textual, idk.

>>10446
> It's very encouraging to finally see good college-grade free lessons. Hopefully we can have them for non-tech subjects also.
uygha they have been around for like a decade, you just have to know where to look

>>10451
yeah but TBF this vid series is alot more high quality than MIT OCW or something, since it was made for remote students and not just grainy video recorded in a lecture hall in 2006

>>10452
MOOCs were a big thing in 2012, since then you can find courses made specifically for remote (online) students. In almost a decade since, only two things changed: video resolutions became higher and everyone forgot about MOOCs due to the growing evidence of them being basically useless.

>>10456
they're still good for people who learn audiovisually and just want a reference, not as a replacement for actual education

>>10463
>people who learn audiovisually
That's a myth, they don't exist.

>>10464
can you tldr this?

>>10465
There is a widespread belief that people have "learning styles", like verbal, visual, auditory, etc., and they learn better when instructed in this "style". But the styles are ill-defined, self-reporting by students is unreliable and tests to determine them are contradictor. Moreover, experiments failed to find any benefit from instructional material tailored to specific learning styles, meaning that supposed "audiovisual learners" did not have any disadvantage from learning texts compared to students of the other "styles" and so on.

>>10464
>>10466
The entire debate is flawed IMHO, learning styles probably aren't about learning performance rather then about how much stress somebody experiences during learning. I want to see a long term study about how learning styles affect stress levels. People that get too much stress during learning tend to drop out. So the study should also compare the drop out rates of students with learning styles.

You have to pay attention that nasty cultural battles can ensue, where one subculture tries to cause another subculture somatic stress by changing institutional designs.

>>10467
It is not flawed, the study addresses the claims of proponents of "learning styles" and not some random hypothesis that you have just made up on the spot.

By the way, competition and retention rates has always been terrible on MOOCs.

>>10467
this post talks about stress
>>10469
this post talks about educational results

talking past one another