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I spent my entire university career skipping out on lectures because I would never get much out of them. The spoken word is too slow when paced to the dumbest s
by johnbm 13y ago
I spent my entire university career skipping out on lectures because I would never get much out of them. The spoken word is too slow when paced to the dumbest student, the linear straightjacket of slides goes against my natural inclination to imagine and experiment on tangents, and most professors insisted on telling rather than showing anyway, which is horribly inefficient.
If I'd had videos, I could have watched them at 2x, paused when I needed to to go do some sketching or googling, and learned more in the same amount of time because I was directing my own learning and not limited to somebody else's linear encoding of ideas into words.
- ksk 13y agoYour problem seems to be with specific styles of teaching rather than offline videos vs. live teaching. I could come up with a plausible scenario where everytime I try to learn from videos, pause and google something - I constantly receive mis-information and half-truths which confuse me further and cause me to google more random things. In this case I need to attend lectures so that I can interact with an established expert on the topic and ask questions 'live'.