Specifically, we test hypotheses about the difference in navigation ability between males and females and whether turtles compensate for large course deviations by "re-calculating" the most direct route to their destination.
For a large course, universities would pay about $8 a student to use the Coursera platform.
THE BILL Antipasti, $5; first courses, $6 to $16; pastas, $13 to $19 for small portions, $21 to $24 for large; second courses, $19 to $29; desserts, $7 to $10.
Something similar applies even to larger courses.
What we know today as the modern textbook actually has its roots in the 1960s, when a combination of the diversification of traditional curricula and a dramatic increase in the number of students (see: Baby Boomers) heightened the demand for larger aggregations of course materials that could be packaged into one collection -- this, in turn, lead to the rise of the education publishing industry.
Sperber's theory is that university administrators entertain undergraduates with a party lifestyle so they won't feel cheated by high tuition for large, flabby courses taught by graduate students.
This paper describes how SWoRD (scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline), a web-based reciprocal peer review system, supports writing practice, particularly for large content courses in which writing is considered critical but not feasibly included.
This relatively small reward usually affords on the order of 5% participation, which is useful for large undergraduate courses, where it would be impractical to have 200 students trained and guided within Second Life.
Although this experimental design shares principles with other variants of diminishing returns experiments described previously in the literature, it differs from them in two important feature: (1) it is specifically designed for large enrollment courses, and (2) it introduces the notion of capital as part of the experiment.
If so, then peer grading might make these types of assignments practical for large-enrollment courses, even when staffing levels decline.
