Someday this blog will be linked in with the webpage so you can actually find it and read it. So, why is it taking so long to get the website up? At this point, I'm back at work regularly, but I'd like to have drafts of the assignments and many exam questions written before I create the website.
Why?
I hope we're all in this course to learn. I certainly am! However, grades can sometimes make a habit of getting in the way of learning. Therefore, I'd like to at least prototype the assignments and exam questions before committing to the course's other parameters so that I can ensure that the graded assessments feed into our learning.
Once I have them prototyped, I intend (among other things) to pre-post sample exam questions specifically designed to prepare you effectively for the real exams. I'd like the specific questions on an exam to be a surprise—so you show that you can reason with the concepts we learn in a novel situation. However, I'd like the type of question you face to mostly be familiar—so you spend little or no time agonizing about what the question is actually asking you to do.
Hopefully, I'll finish all that in the next few days and have the course website up before the start of the term, at least!
Cheers,
Steve
Website is up! First practice midterm exam is not up, but it is mostly written.
ReplyDeleteI hope to have it posted within a week.