A side post on MOOCs: angrymath Hates Statistics 101
Posted: September 11, 2012 Filed under: Education | Tags: blogging, community, education, educational problem, feedback, higher education, moocs, teaching approaches, udacity Leave a commentA friend just forwarded me a rather scathing critique of one of the Udacity courses. The rather aptly named angrymath has published Udacity Statistics 101. To forewarn you, this is one of the leading quotes:
In brief, here is my overall assessment: the course is amazingly, shockingly awful.
As one of the commenters put it, hopefully the problems are growing pains and iteration towards perfection will continue. I haven’t seen the course in question so can’t comment, merely present.
Nick Falkner 