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29 votes
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You are not a visual learner: The biggest myth in education
15 votes -
2021 United States teacher shortage survey overview
6 votes -
The fight to whitewash US history: At least fifteen states are trying to ban schools from teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. The reactionary movement stretches back to the 1920s.
18 votes -
Relative student ability is remarkably static and predictable from pre-K to college and beyond
17 votes -
Becker College (Worcester, Massachusetts) closing its doors
8 votes -
What are the single best resources for learning something new?
When learning something new, often available resources are lacking in some departments - whether they're missing information, poorly written, or tedious and dry. But occasionally, some content...
When learning something new, often available resources are lacking in some departments - whether they're missing information, poorly written, or tedious and dry. But occasionally, some content just stands out as above and beyond the rest, serving to not only make the learning process enjoyable but also to kindle interest in further exploration. What is that for you?
This could encompass everything from computer programming to literary criticism, and could be in the form of a website, book, video tutorial, or the like.
13 votes -
Why is Africa still so poor?
1 vote -
Book review: The Cult Of Smart
18 votes -
Is college still worth it?
11 votes -
Is computer code a foreign language?
14 votes -
How the ballpoint pen killed cursive
17 votes -
Bad arguments against teaching Chinese philosophy
10 votes -
The dollars and sense of free college - Georgetown University analysis of Biden's free college plan finds that it pays for itself within a decade
11 votes -
Edinburgh Philosophy – Voices on Hume
3 votes -
We need a new approach to teaching modern Chinese history: We have lazily repeated false narratives for too long
6 votes -
A mathematician's lament
8 votes -
We don’t know our potential
10 votes -
Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
9 votes -
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
27 votes -
The 450 Movement
5 votes -
Are philosophical classics too difficult for students?
4 votes -
Reading and decoding from the perspective of someone with a learning disability
3 votes -
At a loss for words: How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
35 votes -
How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
3 votes -
How to think about individual vs group hereditarianism
3 votes -
What online courses / MOOCs have you taken?
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively. I took MIT 6.00.2x:...
Not leaving the house much these days (due to social distancing and also insane heat in NYC right now) means I've got some time to kill that I'd like to spend productively.
I took MIT 6.00.2x: Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science a few years back when I was refreshing my Python skills. I think it's been updated a bit since then. It was a high quality course and I enjoyed it, though there are so many Python-related courses these days, I can't guarantee it's the best.
I'm currently taking:
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Model Thinking on Coursera from the University of Michigan. I don't know where I saw this recommended (maybe on Tildes or Hacker News?) but it's quite good so far. Scott Page teaches about how to use various models (mental models, computational ones, etc.) for breaking down and analyzing various problems and systems. I've only just started but I quite like it.
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Testing and Monitoring Machine Learning Model Deployments on Udemy. Taking this along with a few coworkers since it's relevant to what I do. Only just starting but appears to be quite good and works through a well-documented example project on Github.
I've also come across a few that seem like they might be good courses for the future:
- Bayesian Methods for Hackers
- Probalistic graphical models on Coursera (3-part sequence, not free)
- Computational probability and inference
Now your turn: what have you taken? What did you like or not like, and why? What do you want to take?
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The practical case on why we need the humanities
14 votes -
The educational standardization trap
10 votes -
The coming disruption - Scott Galloway predicts a handful of elite universities and tech companies will soon monopolize higher education
6 votes -
How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
6 votes -
Biden’s free-college plan is a solution in search of a problem
6 votes -
Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world
12 votes -
Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics
16 votes -
Why selection bias is the most powerful force in education
16 votes -
One in five University of Otago, New Zealand medical students to be denied graduation after falsifying overseas placement records
6 votes -
Korean education: A view from the trenches
13 votes -
In China, surge in students informing on professors
8 votes -
Are liberal arts colleges doomed? The cautionary tale of Hampshire College and the broken business model of American higher education
8 votes -
What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
23 votes -
"You can't say that! Stories have to be about white people"
12 votes -
The hedge fund billionaire’s guide to buying your kids a better shot at not just one elite college, but lots of them
11 votes -
After Labour's conference pledge to scrap Ofsted and private schools, does the envied Finnish education system provide the blueprint?
8 votes -
How to keep teachers from leaving the profession
9 votes -
Jerry Falwell’s aides break their silence - Current and former Liberty University officials describe a culture of fear and self-dealing at the largest Christian college in the world
10 votes -
How the MIT Media Lab concealed its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
12 votes -
The play deficit
3 votes -
Meet Timothy Leary, the 1960s Harvard professor who became the ‘high priest of LSD’
6 votes -
China orders halt to history tests for students seeking credits for US university courses
9 votes -
The revenge of the poverty-stricken college professors is underway in Florida. And it's big.
20 votes