Wednesday, August 17, 2011

There are big courses, and then there are BIG courses

Having TA'd large lecture courses in grad school, I know how much work goes into teaching them.  But this is an entirely different scale:

“Stanford University has opened up to the public an introductory artificial intelligence class, taught by two luminaries in the field: 70,000 people have signed up to receive registration information for the course (blogs.scientificamerican.com)” 

70,000 is a lot of assignments to grade.  I feel feel sorry for the TA’s.