Comments on: Marginal Revolution University: A Hidden Advantage http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/09/07/marginal-revolution-university/ Personal Science, Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method Wed, 22 May 2013 03:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Assorted links http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/09/07/marginal-revolution-university/#comment-1015662 Assorted links Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:49:17 +0000 http://blog.sethroberts.net/?p=7531#comment-1015662 [...] 1. Slides from luminaries on development economics, as presented in Stockholm. [...]

]]> By: JeffE http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/09/07/marginal-revolution-university/#comment-1014189 JeffE Sat, 08 Sep 2012 03:11:19 +0000 http://blog.sethroberts.net/?p=7531#comment-1014189 I also like teaching large classes. (I’m a CS prof at Iliinois.)

Administering large classes, on the other hand….

]]> By: Jonathan Shewchuk http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/09/07/marginal-revolution-university/#comment-1014179 Jonathan Shewchuk Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:53:36 +0000 http://blog.sethroberts.net/?p=7531#comment-1014179 For what it’s worth, I’m a Berkeley CS prof who likes teaching large classes. I like them because (1) I thrive better (go into the zone more easily) in front of a large audience and (2) my department is wise enough to award more teaching credit for large classes. Perhaps it’s ironic that I’m not really tempted to do an EdX courses because I don’t think I lecture well in a studio. I need the live audience.

Some of my colleagues in the department seem really excited about their large-scale online courses. Granted, those are usually upper-division courses like software engineering, and it’s only the full-time lecturers who seem excited about large-scale lower-division courses.

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