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<p>Ok, I guess I was looking in the wrong place or not carefully enough (or both).</p>
<p>The Yale Game Theory class did have sections; that was mentioned from time to time in the lectures. Fang Jr and I did fine without the sections, though. We had our own mini study group where we worked on the problems. For this kind of class, I can’t see that a discussion format would be beneficial.</p>
<p>The Econ 12 game theory course is a large lecture course Swarthmore, capped at 30 students.</p>
<p>Come on, it is not a choice between ‘lecture’ or ‘discussion’. There are many forms of learning that can be used effectively in a small group.</p>
<p>A traditional lecture is cheap and efficient in terms of faculty time, but its not the best way to learn.</p>
<p>Sorghum, sometimes a lecture class is the best way to learn. I took a jazz history class that was taught by a professional jazz musician. The professor was a friend of many of the all time jazz greats and played with many of them. He was very good friends with Art Tatum. (Check out Art Tatum’s version of Tiger Rag on youtube.). The professor also performed in class.</p>
<p>I preferred the way this class was taught compared to having the 20 students sit around and discuss. A class taught by a professional or expert may be preferable to a discussion based class with students that don’t know the subject matter.</p>
<p>I guess you would have preferred class discussion instead of the lectures.</p>
<p>Spending an hour a day watching other students fumble around isn’t a particularly great way to learn, either.</p>
<p>I’m in a 10-person lecture class right now, and it’s amazing. The class might just be an hour and fifteen minutes of the prof talking, but it’s awesome. I’ve learned so much about the subject, way more than if we spent the time having random kids talk about a subject they know nothing about.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between a class that attempts to impart knowledge and a class that is support to develop methodology/problem solving. One size does not fit all. I swear, LAC arrogance sometimes make my classmate’s ivy arrogance seem tame in comparison.</p>
<p>Speaking as someone who has sat through all twenty-four lectures in the Yale Game Theory course, and has done all the homework and the exams, I have to say the lecture format, coupled with working the problem sets, is an excellent way to learn this particular subject. Other subjects, other methods.</p>
<p>I have tried but without apparent success to point out that ‘discussion’ is not the sole and automatic alternative to ‘lecture’.</p>
<p>Even where you have ‘discussion’ it does not not have to equate to ‘ignorant discussion’. If the material to be discussed is assigned in advance, and students have to actively use and present material they have prepared, under critical questioning and feedback from the professor, then indeed they can learn a lot more.</p>
<p>A lecture-based approach is also better where there are 12 students rather than 120, because then questions and interaction is facilitated, and the professor can actively engage in questioning of students, who he knows individually.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
<p>I have recently been viewing some of the good open courses available at Yale, and I was wondering whether anyone knew how we could obtain the answers to the problem sets given on the course. </p>
<p>We are able to access the solutions to the mid-term and final exams but not the problem sets. </p>
<p>I am currently looking at the Game Theory course (Econ 159), but I am also interested in Financial Markets (Econ 252), Political Science (PLSC 114) and Psychology (PSYC 110).</p>
<p>I would really appreciate your help at locating the above-mentioned solutions. </p>
<p>Many thanks.</p>
<p>The 10/11/09 Chronicle had a very interesting article and video on Open Courseware:</p>
<p>[Free</a> Online Courses, at a Very High Price - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Online-Courses-at-a-Very/48777/]Free”>http://chronicle.com/article/Free-Online-Courses-at-a-Very/48777/)</p>