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1 vote
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Book review: The Cult Of Smart
18 votes -
Is college still worth it?
11 votes -
A year of spaced repetition software in the classroom
8 votes -
America will sacrifice anything for the college experience
8 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 -
The 450 Movement
5 votes -
Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
27 votes -
Are philosophical classics too difficult for students?
4 votes -
How men’s rights groups helped rewrite regulations on campus rape
6 votes -
Justice Department says Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants
10 votes -
Losing the education lottery
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 -
A very detailed Corona curriculum for your kids
5 votes -
Small colleges were already on the brink. Now, coronavirus threatens their existence
4 votes -
What is Finland's Phenomenon-based Learning (PhenoBL) approach? This approach breaks down subject-based compartmentalisation of knowledge
7 votes -
Why Finland's schools outperform most others across the developed world
15 votes -
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in schools – country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
7 votes -
Beginning Greek, again and again
8 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 -
Teacher effects on student achievement and height: A cautionary tale
13 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 -
Student tracking, secret scores: How college admissions offices rank prospects before they apply
15 votes -
What teaching ethics in Appalachia taught me about bridging America’s partisan divide
23 votes -
An unseen victim of the college admissions scandal: The high school tennis champion aced out by a billionaire family
9 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 -
What college admissions offices really want - Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all
10 votes