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Re:Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learnin... by colinmhayes on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:07PM (#23911506)
Everyone went to discussions, and office hours were effectively mandatory, so there was still plenty of staff interaction. In the end I don't feel like I miss much by watching lectures online. I honestly believe asking questions during lecture is extremely disrespectful bordering on immoral when there are more than 100 people listening, so why show up?
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Re:Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learnin... by bsder on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:18PM (#23911602)
> Everyone went to discussions, and office hours were effectively mandatory, so there was still plenty of staff interaction. In the end I don't feel like I miss much by watching lectures online.

Okay, that's a LOT of missing context.

Having a "discussion" section is unusual for most universities outside of beginner prerequisite classes. And, office hours have never been mandatory for students anywhere I have taught.

Given that, yeah, I can see that interrupting a lecturer is problematic and that watching a recording is probably okay.

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Re:Harvard CS professor David Malan built a distance-learnin... by pretendscholar on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:15PM (#23913570)
What if it's a good question?
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