Logic taking the University by storm
Juliette Marchant,
Honi Soit,
Sept 16, 2021
It's funny that the number of students enrolled in this course - 2200 - is almost exactly the same as we had in our first MOOC in 2008. But of course, all of these would have been for-credit tuition-paying students. And there's this: "In addition to the course lectures, there are 92 tutorial sections for the course, run by "a small army of passionate tutors." Now I wonder whether by 'passionate' they mean 'volunteer'. My own experience suggests that the very least, it means 'underpaid'. So the model we have here is of three professors, one of whom authored the course textbook, offloading the teaching to the tutors. Also, while the course lectures (featuring 'Seb and Inky') seem to be very similar to the ontology video I linked to yesterday, there is absolutely no sign of them on the open web. Which is sad, really, given the praise offered by students.
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