Khan Academy launches Khan World School online high school

Post by endisneigh » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 2:51 PM UTC

photochemsyn wrote: post #174

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This is directly related to the teacher-student ratio, regardless of whether it's online or not. One of Malcolm Gladwell's books made a convincing argument that reducing class size quickly runs into the issue of diminishing returns. A cursory Googling suggests there's plenty of research to back it up[0][1] The effectiveness of in-person learning may have more to do with social interaction and peer motivation. A teach…

In some of these online classes I've heard of >1000 students signing up with one professor and maybe two assistants. In that case, maybe a model would be to recruit the top students (selected early in the course based on their submitted) work) to act as tutors for say groups of 10 or so. Pitch them on the idea with "the best way to learn something is to explain it to someone else."

Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 2:53 PM UTC

endisneigh wrote: post #181

photochemsyn wrote: post #174

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In some of these online classes I've heard of >1000 students signing up with one professor and maybe two assistants. In that case, maybe a model would be to recruit the top students (selected early in the course based on their submitted) work) to act as tutors for say groups of 10 or so. Pitch them on the idea with "the best way to learn something is to explain it to someone else."

And what happens if they don’t want to do it?

Post by endisneigh » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

toomuchtodo wrote: post #183

endisneigh wrote: post #181

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And what happens if they don’t want to do it?

Make their course completion contingent upon doing so? That’s a bit draconian of course, but you could also provide something positive to juice the deal instead. Incentives 101.

Post by jamal-kumar » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 3:05 PM UTC

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Damn I spent the whole pandemic reading books and doing my best to get ahead as such How did everyone else mess it up so bad? I'm just reading this and thinking back to my resolve to use this time as positively as possible, like study and doing my best with savings was the most obvious thing at the time to me Might be something to do with me living in the third world and adaptation culture being different

> How did everyone else mess it up so bad Kids. A different set of mental-health challenges. Being worried about losing their job. Being more dependent on their non-coliving family than you are. Being more worried about their family than you are. Having a job that they're not used to doing online. Having a job that's hard to do online. Having a job that couldn't be done online. Being deprived of life-long hobbies and…

Post by ilaksh » Wed, Apr 27, 2022, 3:06 PM UTC

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I don't entirely disagree, but I partially disagree. Personally I was desperate in March 2020 (as were my colleagues) for any tips about what would work online. I didn't want my classes to suck, nor did my colleagues. There was very little information available at the beginning about what worked. But what's worse (and what makes me disagree with your comment) is that even after a year of being online it still wasn't…

Could it be that since humans are social primates, online simply can never work as well as face-to-face. I work in sales and direct face-to-face sales ALWAYS has better close rates, happier customers, etc. than indirect sales through phone or internet.