Sunday, January 24, 2010

problem-sets extending lecture content

I received an interesting post on the course discussion board. A student was concerned that the weekly problem-sets were on material that I had not covered during lecture. My reply described how the problem-sets extended and built on the foundation from the lectures.

In the end, I think a core issue is how to communicate to students that learning while at university is more than mastering a set of procedures but being able to develop broader skills so they can solve new and larger problems.

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