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

[bugshaw]

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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[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Priceless.

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

My darling son is encountering the same problem with his online courses, here in beautiful East Tennessee.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Not Coursera? Are we unwittingly study-buddies?

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's making a point.

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

You won't forget that one, eh? :)