Udacity Statistics 101
AngryMath,
Sept 19, 2012
Suppose somebody hosted a MOOC at it wasn't very good? That's the verdict offered by AngryMath after reviewing Sebastian Thrun's Statistics 101 course on Udacity. Some of the points are less convincing ("the lectures and the overall sequence feel like they haven't been planned out in advance") but some of the points are pretty telling:
- "never in all my years of teaching has a course so massively diverged from the initial plan or course description"
- "(it) manages to go almost its entire length without ever mentioning or making any distinction between the population and sample"
- "(it) passes without ever calculating any values for normal curves."
So, in theory, because these courses are online, they can be updated and the problems corrected. But in practice, suggests AngryMath, they won't. Via Computing Education Blog.
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