I think that students have been learning calculus with little input from teachers for a long time. Teaching the course, I’ve often felt that there was no way that the vast majority of my students could possibly be getting much out of my lessons – it was only through working on the problems that they learned the material. Perhaps this is just end-of-the-term frustration speaking, but I often find myself wondering if we should just do away with the 3 lecture hours per week and present our students with a good set of notes and a well-staffed tutorial centre. An online course approximates that reasonably well, so perhaps its time has come.
Either that or universities just aren’t “doing calculus” right.
I think that students have been learning calculus with little input from teachers for a long time. Teaching the course, I’ve often felt that there was no way that the vast majority of my students could possibly be getting much out of my lessons – it was only through working on the problems that they learned the material. Perhaps this is just end-of-the-term frustration speaking, but I often find myself wondering if we should just do away with the 3 lecture hours per week and present our students with a good set of notes and a well-staffed tutorial centre. An online course approximates that reasonably well, so perhaps its time has come.
Either that or universities just aren’t “doing calculus” right.
Naaaaahhhh.
I like you Moebius!