Comments on: Video: A Vision of Students Today

By: ionut

ionut — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:32:14 +0000

The first part of the video reminds me why I like teaching at a community college better than a 4-year university.

I know all of my student’s names, and my largest class size is 30. I know most of their majors and where they are from. I grade their work and lecture to them – there are no TAs.

Couldn’t pay me enough money to go teach at a 4-year university. Hate the fake college degree.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:08:41 +0000

I guess that Canada, in the Computer Science Canada title, is the ambigious word. Although it's pretty much the same here. Though then again it depends on what kind of classes you're taking. My Computer Science classes are 150 people. My Philosophy classes are 15 people in size.

By: David Hopkins

David Hopkins — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:56:57 +0000

Great video. I had no idea you Americans had such huge class sizes. When I was in school, my average class size was between about 8 and 18 people.

By: NsaneNoob

NsaneNoob — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 07:46:27 +0000

In my college all the lecturer read back what on notes. Student will get less attracted. Student need to participate to get active, plain reading is a waste of time.

By: What is the World Wide Web?

What is the World Wide Web? — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:52:12 +0000

Students online in class? No! hehehe… Check my IP, I’m “studing” in class right now. CAD design in SolidWorks. I can’t even USE SolidWorks because it doesn’t run on Ubuntu…

I’m bored and off to wikipedia! Bye!

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:39:26 +0000

I do about 4 hours of school related things a day, on average.

Not wasting time going to math and CS classes is a major time saver. In most of those classes, the professor will just read the course notes to you. So, unless you can’t read, there are better things to do.