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The growth in the number of courses, providers, participating universities and online students has led to a debate among educators, with some arguing that these free virtual lectures could completely change the nature of post-secondary education, while others warn that the courses are not nearly as effective as real lectures.
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WE NON-academic economists sometimes forget that other economics bloggers have to do real professing, in real lecture halls.
For me, doing a real lecture class with 40 to 50 students — and being able to have a deep engagement with those students in the classroom over an extended period of time — is very exciting.
Professor Joanne Freeman: I now actually want to move on to the topic of the real lecture today, and I've titled the lecture "War and Society". And I mentioned on Tuesday's lecture — at the very end of it — I mentioned that although the Treaty of Paris formally ended the fighting of the American Revolution, that there were a lot of things obviously, clearly undecided at that point.
These are real lecture notes, and they therefore have errors great and small, missing figures (that I usually draw from memory in class), and they cover and omit topics according to my own view of what is or isn't important to cover in a one-semester course.
The sixth-year internal medicine course is an 18-week course that includes clinic-based learning, case-based discussions on real patients, lectures, topic-based tutorials and an externship rotation with bedside discussion.
Real-life lectures have no pause, rewind (or fast-forward) buttons; MOOCs let students learn at their own pace, typically with short, engaging videos, modelled on the hugely successful online lecturettes pioneered by TED, a non-profit organiser of upmarket mindfests.The cost of the courses can be spread over huge numbers of students.
They considered starting an infomercial company after an order was placed at Guthy's cassette duplication company, Cassette Productions Unlimited, for 50,000 copies of a real estate lecture to be sold through infomercials.
He spoke at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, libraries in Stratford and Glastonbury, and a real-estate lecture at a hotel in Rocky Hill.
It's a real break from lectures, of sitting there and not participating.
During those first two years students only occasionally see real patients during lectures, or on videos during tutorial group meetings.
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