[Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus
- From: open.source@xxxxxxx (Arun Kumar)
- Date: Fri Jun 18 15:31:23 2010
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From: Yuvi Panda
Sent: 06/18/10 05:50 PM
To: ILUG-C
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Victor Johnson <victor.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Much worried to think the status of the students who are going to mug up
every program and exercise as they dont have any theory paper to explain
what
they are working in the lab.
As a student who sees this happen first hand, I'm incredibly worried
as well. What will happen is, ofcourse, staff will google to find
solutions to exercises, print them out, xerox them and give them off
to students to copy. Students will type in the xeroxed notes, make
tons of spelling mistakes - which the staff will have no idea how to
fix. Average impact of this course on the average student will not be
much.
Most we can hope for is that someone new will get impressed from the
NRCFOSS materials itself and want to find out something new for
himself. Looking forward to see the result NRCFOSSS produces.
Yes but most of the cases which I've seen - faculty members don't even "google"
it around but simply using the exercises/code that has been written years
back. Also they stick to some limited number game (like I will keep 6 to 12
programs only for this semester) and no matter whether students understand
them or not. I would appreciate if NRC FOSS requests university academic dean
or curriculum council or respective authorities to come out from traditional
way of conducting lab exercises to mini projects which must be unique in nature
and allocate to the individual student. It doesn't whether he/she can 100%
success
in running the code or not and I think that's way we look at, otherwise
it's going to like the same even after many years like what are seeing today.
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