I would like to share this email from MOOC Course Programming Mobile Applications for Android Handheld Systems Were almost there.......... Right now there are almost 140,000 students signed up for the class. That just blows my mind! In 23 years at the University of Maryland, Ive probably taught around 1500-2000 students. My goal for this class is that, over several offerings of the course, Ill teach over 1,000,000 students. With the traditional approach that would take me a few hundred working lifetimes. :-) While its interesting to think about teaching at such a scale, the fact is that many MOOC students get lost early and drop out. If thats what a student wants to do, then, of course, thats fine. But I think many students drop out because theyre not used to MOOCs and they end up getting frustrated. So here are some thoughts I have about how to approach the course. Unfortunately, its a bit long. If it helps, great. If you have your own learning style, feel free to ignore it. One comment I often hear from students is that courses just have so much stuff in them - lectures, readings, homework, projects, etc. - that its hard to figure out even how to approach it all. Well, like most complex undertakings, I think it helps to break the whole thing down into bite-sized pieces and then eat those pieces one at a time. This doesnt magically make difficult things easy. It just means that if you keep going, youll eventually get to the end.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 06:32:34 +0000
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