Instructor Insights Facilitating a Blended Learning Experience
PHILIP PEARCE: Yes, so I think that the real difference between when you guys first ran the course, which I think was in 2015, and now when I run the course, is that Jen has helped to develop this online MITx platform. Now it's really a flipped classroom course. So it has this blended learning aspect to it where the students complete online reading before they attend the classroom hours. And then in the classroom, we really go through examples, worked examples, where the students can apply the theory that they've learned while they did the online reading. I think this is the key thing that you guys and Jen and myself really saw the course being when I started teaching it. JEREMY ORLOFF: So how do you ensure that they do the online reading? PHILIP PEARCE: So the online reading has many examples where the students can attempt something, attempt a question. And 10% of the grade for the course, is given to them for getting these questions right. It's a small incen...