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You'd think they were trying to get a point across

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 11:30pm on 29/03/2012
Doing an online course, with regular quizzes (which seems to be the US version of "Tutorial problems"), but there were some questions which needed knowledge of a concept that hadn't been covered in the lectures or the reading.

And what concept was that? Why, it was that to use some advanced concepts, you needed prior knowledge of, um, other skills and concepts...
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posted by [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com at 11:09pm on 29/03/2012
Priceless.
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posted by [identity profile] mkillingworth.livejournal.com at 02:47am on 30/03/2012
My darling son is encountering the same problem with his online courses, here in beautiful East Tennessee.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:04pm on 30/03/2012
Not Coursera? Are we unwittingly study-buddies?
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posted by [identity profile] davidwake.livejournal.com at 07:29am on 30/03/2012
Maybe it's making a point.
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posted by [identity profile] sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com at 09:47am on 30/03/2012
You won't forget that one, eh? :)
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