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Re:The Fall of Academics at Harvard by jvrossb on Saturday March 02, 2013 @06:54PM (#5311709)
Is it possible to craft a course that assumed that students would collaborate/copy from each other and the internet while completing any take home assignment (so homework and projects but not in-class tests), allow for it explicitly, and still teach as much as the existing courses would have if students didn't collaborate/copy?
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Re:The Fall of Academics at Harvard by kruken on Saturday March 02, 2013 @07:07PM (#5311767)
Yes, absolutely possible - it's just a lot more work. As simonsarris points out above, this will be the exception rather than the rule in a system where universities and faculty are not measured/rewarded for quality of teaching.
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Re:The Fall of Academics at Harvard by Evbn on Saturday March 02, 2013 @11:12PM (#5312481)
Teach? Easy. Grade? No. And that's what the problem: too much focus on grades, which are nearly meaningless.
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