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I don't understand what "because" is referring to... "explanations.app has visual forums where university grads will properly resolve all your questions for $10/week, because the video explanations also benefit other students."
I'm curious - do you have any plans for doing "quality control" as more tutors join your site? What will you do if someone joins as a tutor and is giving incorrect/misleading answers to students, and getting paid for it?
Attendance is correlated with student success. This leads to mandates to increase attendance. Then the perverse incentives kick in. Teachers refuse to post good materials online so more students have to attend. The idiots in the US Department of Education decided that correspondence courses were not worth as much as distance learning courses. They decided the difference between correspondence courses and distance lea…
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I'm in 3rd year CS and I almost never go to office hours for my CS courses, because a lot of the time I don't have something specific to ask. I go to lecture, don't understand the material, and then review my notes & the slides at home, working through the examples until I understand them. If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't un…
> If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't understand and asking it in office hours 2-3 days later, and then potentially getting stuck on something else later on in the proof/example. Good! This is what you should be doing! Understanding comes from within, and teachers can only guide you to it. You are your own best teacher, and you…
Professors can be great, but they're likely to be experts and researchers who find the course material trivially easy – and have long forgotten what it was like to learn it for the first time as an absolute beginner.
> Help resources become inefficient - because so much material is restricted, and so much time is spent on delivering live lectures, there’d often be 40 students competing for help from 2 TAs in a 2-hour Office Hours I had the exact opposite problem when I was both a TA and later a professor. I would beg and plead for my students to come to office hours. "It's free one on one tutoring from the guy who writes the test…
I'm in 3rd year CS and I almost never go to office hours for my CS courses, because a lot of the time I don't have something specific to ask. I go to lecture, don't understand the material, and then review my notes & the slides at home, working through the examples until I understand them. If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't un…
> Help resources become inefficient - because so much material is restricted, and so much time is spent on delivering live lectures, there’d often be 40 students competing for help from 2 TAs in a 2-hour Office Hours I had the exact opposite problem when I was both a TA and later a professor. I would beg and plead for my students to come to office hours. "It's free one on one tutoring from the guy who writes the test…
I've literally never seen TA's/Professors competing for help on an exam. Its always begging for students to come in and ask questions because the average in the class is I think the only time I've ever seen a line during office hours is when after an exam, students would beg for improved grades.
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> If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't understand and asking it in office hours 2-3 days later, and then potentially getting stuck on something else later on in the proof/example. Good! This is what you should be doing! Understanding comes from within, and teachers can only guide you to it. You are your own best teacher, and you…
> TAs can be great, but they're likely someone with limited pedagogical experience. Professors can be great, but they're likely to be experts and researchers who find the course material trivially easy – and have long forgotten what it was like to learn it for the first time as an absolute beginner.
Sometimes the two coexist, allowing an expert to communicate material to the mind of a beginner, and those are the amazing teachers.