Importantly, this represents one tiny aspect of how flexible education can be. Every education I’ve ever experienced before Lambda would have just move on and left students perpetually more confused.
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It turns out most of the reason we educate the way we do is a result of a broken cost and incentive structure. The internet + aligned incentives lets us blow all that up.
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That’s pretty cool. How do you manage the spread of students across many “weeks” of material?
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At a certain point the notion of cohorts mostly goes away, you just have students working on different weeks with instructors spread out
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The “social obligation” factor of being a cohort can be highly motivating. Also hard to judge students having a true bad week (which can be disastrous in a cohort model) versus being uncomfortable and resistant to growth.
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Our cohorts are very large, so there are still solid groups. And it’s based on an assessment we call a “sprint challenge” so it’s objective
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Sounds very similar to
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Regardless, you are working on a great mission!

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My curiosity is what attention is spent on the process that the students apply in attempting to master the material. Setting it out might make student failures less likely, while also giving future instructors a clear framework from which to assess and guide students.
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Too if you clarified the weakneses in the procesess, you could either/and test for them coming in, or create remedial material which addresses them. Some folk because of prior experiences do not have much of a concept of "mastery based" learning/teaching.
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Yup. Have a team working on all of that.
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By the way, here is a book on C you might find interesting: http://aop.cs.cornell.edu/ It is unique for how it builds up mental models of computation as it goes along, including the mental model it presents for pointers. It is what I will use when I eventually get round to C.
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Too it presents one of the few models of problem-solving within programming, that I have found to be useful.
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where was this when I decided to waste 70k on a normal school for cs?
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The sad thing is I spent 70k and didnt learn anything except for that we all came from monkeys or possibly fish, and that hemp is great for the environment. Everything else I already knew
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This is a great idea. Thank you for improving education.
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We are looking to connect with other schools pursuing mastery and competency based progression. Here’s what we’re thinking https://www.wab.edu/learn/flow21
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Love the idea. I try to use online resources for that purpose in my on campus class. Will try to do something similar next time around.
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