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Lec 5 | MIT 5.95J Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering, Spring 2009

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    Ok. Welcome to Course Design today.
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    How to plan a course and avoid the pitfalls that many courses fall into.
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    In the past few sessions we've some of the results, for example, the misconceptions,
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    the road learning, the lack of transfer; and how do you design a course so that it doesn't contribute
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    to that problems that perhaps mitigate it, and it's a difficult problem.
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    Related to that sort of flowing almost directly from course design is that making large changes
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    to courses is politically very difficult. And several people have asked me questions about that.
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    So actually the penultimate session will be political barriers to educational change.
Title:
Lec 5 | MIT 5.95J Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering, Spring 2009
Video Language:
English
Duration:
01:06:45

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