A story: years ago I got interested in building an online course in aerospace engineering;
By the end of the day we had designed a great course, starting with designing a table and ending with designing a 787; the engineers were excited; all learning by doing; project building on project, but, alas no math and science.
I asked the professor to look at each project; design a table: math and science needed? "of course", he said, "you need Newton's laws."
"So before Newton, there were no tables?" one of our team asked.
All these schools are announcing they will go to online learning. But professors haven't a clue about online learning.
I would love to teach them how to do it; we even have a tool they could use; but they won't be interested, I predict.
They would have to think differently about their existing courses and they can't.
All these schools are announcing they will go to online learning. But professors haven't a clue about online learning.
I would love to teach them how to do it; we even have a tool they could use; but they won't be interested, I predict.
College courses are full of stuff you should know because you might need it later; they are not all that interested in teaching you to do real world things. In fact, very few faculty have never actually done any real world things. (If they have done real world things, they are called "adjuncts."
We will created an online course for faculty to teach real world things online. Let's see if anyone cares.
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