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Balancing fun and fundamentals
In Computing is a Liberal Art » Automatons and Entertainers, Keith O’Hara writes One oft-cited axiom in the MOOC debate is that Math and CS are easier to MOOC-itize than other fields. This is one fact...
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First day of freshman design seminar
On the first day of the design course, I had students fill out an intake survey listing what skills they brought to the class and what they wanted out of the class. I also talked a bit about the...
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Designing courses to teach design
Next week, I have to give a lightning talk that boils down my thoughts on the circuits course (202 posts) and the freshman design course (17 posts so far) to five minutes, without slides (maybe I’ll...
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Designing courses to teach design—draft 2
This Friday, I have to give a lightning talk that boils down my thoughts on the circuits course to ten minutes, without slides, for a university faculty workshop being put on by the Academic Senate:...
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Designing courses to teach design—draft 3
The talk I was scheduled to give last quarter (2014 Feb 24) was rescheduled, because two of the four speakers were unable to make that date. It is now scheduled for Wed 2014 Apr 23 at 3:30 in the...
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Designing courses to teach design—draft 4
Today I tried practicing my talk for Wednesday with my son as an audience (I figured I could get some useful feedback from him based on his years of theater experience). He asked me a number of good...
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Syllabi for splitting Applied Electronics into two courses
In order to split the Applied Electronics for Bioengineers course into two courses, as I suggested in Considering splitting Applied Electronics course, I need to fill out course approval forms to get...
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