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Yes, absolutely. We as a culture need to emphasize people to pick up their trash and be responsible for their own litter. Lots of other culture emphasize this and you rarely see trash on the ground. Trash on the ground is a direct result of the culture saying "who cares if I toss trash on the ground."

Same goes for Singapore. Crime to littler and also the culture there values cleanliness of the city. When I was there I almost never saw trash on the ground, ever. I once saw a plastic cup get blown off some lady's table and the next person who was working on the street who saw it picked it up and tossed it in the trash bin. Public trash bins are everywhere. Absolutely a world-class city in every sense of it.

A lot of videos also look like promo videos for people selling counterfeit juul products.

I agree as well. The kicker here is that the resource has to be well developed, comprehensive and use effective ways to teach the subject. Most online courses I've seen aren't comprehensive, don't really have any effective tools and are sloppily created overall.

IMO, I think google was never designed to really drive people to highly detailed resources. Google is more similar to something like wikipedia where it gives you the high-level overview instead. It makes sense as well that it is like this because the vast majority of people want the basic information, not super detailed information, so over time most of the authoritative sites (sites with tons of backlinks) end up just being sites that are "overview" sites, not a comprehensive resource for the subject.

That's why there is still value by going to someone who is an expert in the subject to basically curate the information for you....like in a course. The problem is most of the experts in the subject work for universities and have no interest in giving their services away for free or the people that do are only able to give a basic course in the subject (coursera, udacity etc.) with limited resources that make self-studying the subject difficult.

I think we need something similar to YELP but for online courses that can be used to self-study. There might be 100 online physics courses but no one really knows which one is "best". Some might only have a textbook, others might only have lecture notes and then a few might actually be very comprehensive....but no one knows this unless there is some sort of review/recommendation site to use.

I am working on an edtech related project for a course I am building. My questions to everyone is, based on your experience, what have you found to be a very effective way to learn something new?

For my courses, I do write a textbook for the course but I don't really write the books for the student to learn from. I write it more as a reference book and as a guide for me to teach the course....essentially for me to hash out what is important to teach in each chapter.

I also create the lecture videos and interactive tools to learn the subject. From what I've seen, the preferred method for most people to learn something is essentially by example and then trial and error (doing it on their own with immediate feedback of how they're doing). For my courses, this essentially happens like the following: student watching a 1-10 minute video on a very specific subject/lesson/topic. The video is me explaining the topic, working some example problems possibly etc. After this the student is immediately redirected to an online tool that requires the student to directly apply what they should have learned from the lecture video. For simple factual exercises I just use multiple choice questions. For complex topics (involving calculations or multiple-step procedures) I use simulation type exercises where the student has to work through the problem on their own. If the student gets stuck, they have tips that explain the specific step further. From what I've noticed, people seem to remember stuff better when they are actively thinking about what they've learned and are actively using the newly learned information to solve some sort of problem. When this type of thinking happens, it seems students get more "ah ha" type moments where it suddenly clicks for them. I have also made multiple "learning paths" for students to use. One path, you can just read the textbook and do practice problems, Another path you can do the lecture videos followed by the interactive problem sets and another path where you just get highly summarized study notes followed by the interactive study problems. This allows students to basically use whichever method works best for them without forcing them into a "one size fits all" model.

This is my method of doing effective teaching but my question is always the same: based on your experience, what have you found to be a very effective way to learn something new?

Thanks, high quality production here!

The problem is the real estate market is very heavily regulated. So even if the market is demanding 50,000 more high-rise condo units be built...it can't happen if the area only approves 5,000 units. That's why it is so important to have smart regulations that promote growth. In real estate, it is easy for certain groups to be anti-building because they know it will skyrocket their existing real estate investments.

You just "spend" it on "non-productive" assets like art, gold coins, jewelry....these sorts of things.

If you read the theories or Karl Marx, his theories are pretty accurate in terms of explaining why people work "gig jobs" even though worker protections are basically non-existent. Marx basically described a class of people as being the "industrial reserve army of the unemployed"...obviously these are people who are either unemployed or unemployed. For these people, they are basically going to fight for whatever job they can get because having a terrible job is better than no job at all. Thus, as long as this class exists, people will work terrible jobs without much ability to fight back. It is also important to note that the industrial reserve army of the unemployed exists for each relevant skill set. For obvious hard to get skillets....the reserve army is basically non-existent. It also explains why all of these "gig economy" type startups almost entirely focus on services that are low-skill by nature.

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

People have strong brand loyalty to amazon. These days you can get pretty much everything for cheaper on ebay. The only reason to use amazon is if you need the item super quick like less than 2 days.

As with everything, automating this at scale is very difficult because you'll need residential IP addresses. So unless you have access to a massive bot net, good luck.

Yes, you can do that. It seems like the vast majority of other people on here have absolutely no clue what they're talking about because they've never used the browser. I have used it about 2 weeks now. Every 15 minutes or so a popup ad shows up which you click to get some brave tokens. It isn't much though. I figure if you botted it 24/7 you would get around 50 cents to 1.50 per day. Probably better stuff to do to make money these days IMO.

Before anyone reads this article. It is talking about actual acreage of land, not dollar value. Most of these 1% own large ranches in rural areas. For some of these people, the reason they own large rural lands is for conservation purposes. For example, the number two private land owner, Ted Turner, uses most of his land for environmental conservation.

Looks like a good course but nothing cringes me more than seeing the Massachusetts institute of TECHNOLOGY still using chalk boards....I mean come on now.

If you look at the federal budget, it is easy to see that the federal government is misallocating a significant amount or tax money to purposes that don't really benefit the average American. Interest on the national debt and military spending are the two big ones. There are probably also wasteful spending in most of the other programs as well.

Then there is the issue of too much inefficiency within existing insurance programs. American consumers are not getting a good value for the healthcare dollars that they do spend.

Lastly, I would say that the American education system is too expensive and too inefficient at training new medical staff.

He never said it was a good definition of value.

It was just the wrong word choice. OP is just talking about very large companies in general.

Pretty sad too because the adjunct teachers were actually the best teachers I ever had in college! They were good because they had real world experience and were there because they actually wanted to teach. I would even say to completely avoid any tenured teachers unless they have a really good rating on rate my professor.

From what I've seen, the theory of degree signaling might actually be breaking down because employers are starting to use more assessment tools to evaluate potential employees.

It is logical people have this view these days because the early versions of online courses were very weak in quality. Quite literally they were PDF scans of homework, a PDF syllabus, instructions on what to do (what chapters to read, when to submit stuff etc.) and power point slides. That was it. If you were lucky, you got video taped lectures from in-person classes.

There is a lot of potential with interactive media using a computer that never gets applied to these online courses because of the technical limitations of teachers and related support staff. It is hard to make really good online courses.

I guess that is a start. I would really like to see these courses enhanced by technology related tools. Personally I think the teaching method that is offered by codecadmey is genius.

I'm personally not in CS so I guess that is why my views are slightly different compared to everyone else here. I work in accounting field. In terms of quality online curriculum there is basically nothing. The ones offered on coursera are basically a joke.

haha, I do the exact same thing but only for buying first class stamps.

Still in business apparently. They seem to sell themselves as NYC's only stamp store. Based on the yelp reviews...it appears their biggest customers are women looking to buy vintage stamps for wedding invitations lol

https://www.yelp.com/biz/champion-stamp-co-new-york

Yup it is exactly that. The big problem, in contrast with precious metals, is that stamps have basically no intrinsic value. They're just pieces of paper. At least with precious metals, the coins can be melted down to create high technology.

hahaha, this is so funny because I was cleaning out my closet and noticed the same thing. Even though the cards were 20-30 years old...they were basically worthless. I live in a high cost of living area so to me there is no point keeping them around taking up space. I must've tossed well over 10,000 cards into the trash.

Moral of the story: teach your kids how to invest in the stock market instead of them "investing" their money into collectibles. Teach your kids the value of investing early and encourage them to do it. They can still buy collectible toys but make sure to remind them that they won't be worth much in the future and to encourage them to buy stocks if they want to invest their money for the future.

I like what udacity is doing overall but I think they've failed to really comprehend the nature of the education industry in the United States. Overall, the biggest problems are simply perceptions by employers in terms of what is considered a quality education. First, employers don't view self-studied or online education to be good. Second problem is employers overwhelmingly gravitate towards traditional degrees from government or private universities. This ends up corrupting the entire fabric of education.

Students, seeking some sort of way to make themselves marketable in the job market, will only obtain education if it results in some sort of valuable degree. Hence the reason people are willing to spend hundreds of thousands to obtain these degrees.

If you really want to disrupt education then you need to be directly figuring out how to change those perceptions. Start with the basics of making educational courses that would be considered the best in the world and then leverage the powerful benefits of an internet connected computer to create the best learning experience for the student. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. The way universities are teaching now is good but it is just not efficient and too costly overall. Take what works from traditional universities and then solve the weaknesses through the benefits of a computer.

When I took udacity courses I just felt that the quality wasn't fully there. They felt more like something that would be a supplemental project you would take if you were studying a traditional course. You still need a way to obtain those key foundation skills before tackling the bigger projects.

I'm assuming you've never taken a MOOC before? Most of them are no way even close to equivalent to the real class. Most of these universities basically use these as marketing. They'll teach you the first 4 weeks of material from a 16 week course. Most of them completely lack any form of assessment tools so students can't even practice.

Yup. For anyone who is a security type IT person at your company, make sure you send out bogus phising emails to employees to see who falls for it and what type of data they give away. At my work if you fall for it the first time then you get training not to do it again. If you fall for it a second time, terminated. They just consider it to be too high of a security risk to keep you around if you fall for it a second time.

It is not necessarily malicious. Some malware is purely designed as a prank type of stuff or to do something funny to the computer.