Timeline for Teach a course in 1 month
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| Sep 21, 2010 at 12:12 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | To clarify: I don't have a problem with lecturers providing partial or even full notes during or after lectures, if they know what they're doing and have strategies for making the lecture worthwhile. I do however think there is a role for lectures; the notes should be aids and resources, not a replacement. OK, I'll shut up now :-) | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 11:55 | answer | added | Niemi | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 11:52 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | u(y): If your lectures are mere transcription sessions, then I sympathise; and if you would be better off reading everything yourself before discussing it with tutors, good for you. I'm merely not convinced that this generalizes to everyone's experience. One of the lecturer's roles is to select, to shape, and to try and give a narrative to the material; to provide commentary in between the definitions and lemmas and theorems... anyway, this is drifting off-topic, and we should probably not start clogging up the comments here. You're welcome to email me if you want to discuss this further. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 11:26 | comment | added | user8232 | I'd prefer sets of notes and then tutorial sessions for asking questions, rather than many hours a week of <s>lectures</s> copying sessions. Lectures really get my goat. If the fact that they get my goat, gets your goat, then your goat is easily got. The word "everyone" in my above comment could be ammended to "many people's" to take into account those who find lectures useful. Uni is for getting a degree/understanding/other stuff, not for spending time as a human photocopier. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 10:42 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | As a former student and present lecturer, remarks such as the previous one really get my goat :-( They also don't seem particularly relevant to the present question, although since the question is so sparing with information it's not clear what is relevant | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 10:29 | history | edited | Benoît Kloeckner |
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| Sep 21, 2010 at 6:22 | comment | added | user8232 | This question highlights the old saying: "A lecture is a system for transferring the lecturer's notes to the students' without going thru the minds of either.". Why not just give the students a set of photocopied notes and be done with it. The way most lectures are conducted is absurd and utterly wasteful of everyone's time. | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 2:07 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Sep 21, 2010 at 0:30 | answer | added | Romeo | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 21, 2010 at 0:20 | answer | added | William Stein | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 22:53 | answer | added | Pete L. Clark | timeline score: 9 | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:52 | answer | added | Zev Chonoles | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:27 | comment | added | David E Speyer | Find out who taught the course before you and get his or her notes! | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:11 | comment | added | Michael | Will I am a logician by training. I don't appreciate your comment. | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:06 | comment | added | user1437 | Do you mean that the duration of the course is one month, or that in one month from now you will teach a course lasting a semester? | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:03 | answer | added | Micah Milinovich | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:01 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | This question is fine for MO if you can give more detail -- what year of undergraduate studies is this course? what is the syllabus? has this course been offered before? | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 20:00 | comment | added | Eric Tressler | How about the textbook you'll be using? | |
| Sep 20, 2010 at 19:56 | history | asked | Michael | CC BY-SA 2.5 |