Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by drpgq on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:00PM
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Yeah but how much did the community college teacher publish?
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by eanzenberg on Saturday July 07, 2018 @11:32PM
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How is publishing relevant to teaching?
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by taneq on Sunday July 08, 2018 @12:03AM
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I think that was the point. University lecturers are judged on their publication rate, not their teaching, so their teaching is sometimes awful.
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by noxToken on Sunday July 08, 2018 @01:55AM
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This hit a little too close to home. Interestingly enough, those professors at my alma mater who were abysmal at teaching and lecturing but pulling millions in grants listened to the course feedback cards. They took it to heart that we had been uninterested* in the way the course was presented, couldn't grasp the material from the lessons, etc. We could see how their teaching methods evolved as we had them for upper level courses and electives.
According to interns, those are some of the best professors that are currently on staff.
Irrelevant note: I originally used disinterested, but those words do not have the same meaning:
> An uninterested person is bored, unconcerned, or indifferent; a disinterested person is impartial, unbiased, or has no stake in the outcome.*[0]
[0]: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/disinter...
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by eanzenberg on Sunday July 08, 2018 @01:25AM
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That's been my experience.
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by MoBattah on Saturday July 07, 2018 @07:45PM
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Where was this?
Re:Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
by dredmorbius on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:13AM
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I'm going to make a stab in the dark and suggest it's an SF Peninsula CC; College of San Mateo, Foothill College, DeAnza, or Mountain View.
Places one is likely to have wealthy ex- Wells/Oracle execs lieabout.
I took a course for fun at a local community college: physics. There was nothing more fascinating learning physics from someone that did accident reconstructions for 30 years. It is a different feel than being lectured to by someone that hasn't finished their graduate program. Then for fun I tried again: Oracle. My teacher? A former executive at WellsFargo and Oracle. He was extremely wealthy, and taught for fun - he did not publish some book or beg for grants.