"a lot of the actual teaching is still happening interactively, in the forums"
Yeah, my one complaint about the class is that the professors and TA do not, in fact, use the forums. You can have office hours by Skype, but I'd rather see the course staff actually keeping track of the forum and stepping in when someone's struggling. (Some students ask really baffling questions that make me think they didn't understand the lecture at ALL, but I don't really know where to start in answering the question.)
But if the course were done really well, yes, I think the forums would take the place of a lot of the teaching.
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Date: 2012-09-10 10:15 pm (UTC)Yeah, my one complaint about the class is that the professors and TA do not, in fact, use the forums. You can have office hours by Skype, but I'd rather see the course staff actually keeping track of the forum and stepping in when someone's struggling. (Some students ask really baffling questions that make me think they didn't understand the lecture at ALL, but I don't really know where to start in answering the question.)
But if the course were done really well, yes, I think the forums would take the place of a lot of the teaching.