Question

I would like to see Openstudy offer full subject lessons.
Tutorials are good, but a full lesson would be the next logical step. Such as Calculus 2, organic chemistry , etc.

Answer 1

Well OpenStudy was mainly desgined for getting help on questions not for making tutorials and lessons... But it would be a good idea for sure! :D

Answer 2

maybe openstudy can be merged to a website that offers full subject lessons.

Answer 3

That would help OpenStudy gain more students too! :)

Answer 4

Eact tutorial could be the lesson.

And then we could link all the lessons for the particular subject.

Answer 5

What is in mind? Like a tutorial of texts, or videos?

Answer 6

I agree with this idea, it will make students more engaged. :)

Answer 7

Both would be good, though I doubt barely anyone would make a video tutorial.

Answer 8

Maybe they should hold like tutoring lessons one on one with a QH charge extra owlbucks :P
and benifits the asker too rather than having to make a post that gets attention of 10 diffrent people good idea perl :)

Answer 9

@perl I think I have misunderstood you. When you say "full lessons" do you really mean one lesson to teach the entire subject?

Answer 10

Idea is the next logical step and has been around for many years.

Saso went so far as to script a platform for this. Several of the mods designed a Khan style sequence of core lessons/tutorials for it, and outlined and partially wrote a collaborative textbook and video lectures to teach it. It was brought up many times and the admins have always preferred to limit the emphasis to the one on one tutor-student interaction. Which reduces to a toll both on the question-answer highway.

Answer 11

Great idea, but the thing is...I don't think many users on here would take advantage of it. As I've made tutorials only friends may have read some of it, but many of the users just come on here for their own questions. I think there are many other sites that offer lessons which the users can already use such as youtube/ khan academy/ MIT lectures/ etc. Though it would be a nice thing to have on here, I think it would take a lot of determination and effort, that would be wasted, not by the poster but by the users. Again, this is just an assumption from the experience I've had on here.

Answer 12

patrickJMT has many excellent video tutorials on youtube for mathematics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsv6L-VcsQ&list=PL88B4B7B7D85B79AA&index=17



some of my personal favorites are Herbert Gross's videos. I just cant find anything i dont like about them :)

http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-006-calculus-revisited-single-variable-calculus-fall-2010/

Answer 13

Aurthur Mattuck also does a fine job, i like his demystification of the Laplace transform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvbdoSeGAgI

Answer 14

If OS would host tutorials they'd first have to create some way to present these tuturials to the users. Like a page where you can find those tutorials, or tutorials suggestions when a user asks a question about square roots, the site would give them a few suggestions like "we see you're looking for help with your square roots problem, perhaps these tutorials will be helpful".

My personal opinion: nah.
There are lots of sites that are specialized in these tutorials, khan academy being the perfect example. OS is more about 1 on 1 live tutoring.

Answer 15

thanks for the responses :)

Answer 16

@GreenCat
a full complete subject . so it would be a series of lessons grouped by subject, linearly.

Answer 17

so a group of tutorials?

Answer 18

Arthur Mattuck is wonderful. I did Calc that way when I was in high school, and I have his book on real analysis. He had me at the 'goat-herder' theorem.

Gilbert Strang takes the cake though, MIT OCW was his brainchild. Anyone who has had anything to do with university hierarchy, deans, bureaucrats, etc can appreciate the sheer effort it must have taken to convince them to make courseware accessible to those who don't write big tuition cheques. A great person. And his computational maths grad course videos on OCW are both wonderful. A great man and a visionary.