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Vaniver comments on Proposal: LW courses - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 06 March 2014 08:28:01AM 4 points [-]

In-person classes and online classes are different, and should be taught differently. At some point I suggested that they just record a seminar, to possibly post parts of it online, but generating good material for a course and then administering it both represent expenditures of nontrivial amounts of capital and effort.

Comment author: Punoxysm 06 March 2014 05:02:21PM 1 point [-]

Well, they could start with a set of mini-modules and upload them to youtube. A couple hours of total content. Put lecture notes and homeworks and a forum on a website. That was a pretty typical way to prototype the early MOOCs.