In 2011, the department's internationally renowned academic Sebastian Thrun, developer of Google's driverless car, put his three-month introductory course on artificial intelligence online, allowing anybody to access the same lectures and homework assignments as his Stanford students.
The day begins at 3am with individual pre-dawn prayers, then continues through the set dawn prayer; classes in Islamic jurisprudence, hadith; the Sufi disciplines of adab, spiritual etiquette, and "sciences of the heart"; and Qur'anic recitation, punctuated by more prayers, lectures and homework.
Educational materials Individual educational materials aimed at teaching a specific subject such as lectures and homework assignments.
A portable DC motor, available through the university library system, serves as an experimental setup, which is tightly integrated into lecture, tutorials and homework.
Comprehensive teaching tools (workout examples, experiments, homework problems, and exercises) and an on-line instructor manual containing lecture plans and homework solutions are offered on the publisher's website.
To increase efficiency in the second year, the presentation of the LFE training was moved to lecture, and the homework was submitted online.
They wanted a way to avoid boring lectures and tedious homework.
At others, the approach is more academic, providing newcomers with lectures, seminars, workbooks and homework assignments before sending them into action.
