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fandomsecrets2012-08-07 06:58 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-08-07 06:58 pm
[ SECRET POST #2044 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2044 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Yamato nadeshiko Shichi Henge/Perfect Girl Evolution]
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[Suits]
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[A Song of Ice and Fire]
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[Yamato nadeshiko Shichi Henge]
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[Sherlock BBC]
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[Homestuck]
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[Sherlock]
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[Stargate Atlantis]
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[Cyborg 009]
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[The Amazing Spiderman]
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[Stargate Universe]
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[Avatar: the Last Airbender]
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[Bunheads/Game of Thrones]
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[thesyndicateproject (youtube)]
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[Codex Alera]
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[Wishbone]
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[The Game OverThinker]
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[K-ON!]
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[Magical Diary]
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RE: coursera
(Anonymous) 2012-08-08 05:10 am (UTC)(link)- Do you have to be a US citizen to sign up for that?
- What if you've never been to a university?*
- Do you have any tips/info/advice on what to do or not do after you've signed up?
- What kind of format of communication are they using to talk to the students? (Video? Online chat system?)
- Do I have to write essay-long tests?
* = I never finished high school (due to problems with depression as well) but I have done some classes at community college. I did fairly well in my English.
I'm interested in these (https://www.coursera.org/course/design) two (https://www.coursera.org/course/thinkagain) courses at the moment, but I am a bit scared that I'll be to dumb to participate. :(
Re: coursera
I'm not a US citizen myself (I'm an immigrant), and I don't think you need to be a US resident either; all they ask when you sign up is your name and email. (I put my initials in rather than my full name, out of internets habit, and I sliiightly regret that as now my name won't be on the certificate I'll get for the course, but as it's not a formal qualification anyway I don't really care. YMMV).
I think types of teaching material vary; the course I'm taking has a little over two hours of video lectures per week, and a free textbook that I've skimmed a bit but not yet had to refer to much (I should really study it more...). There's also a discussion forum where teaching assistants for the class can help out students; I've not used it yet myself but I know they're taking it seriously, as there have been a few emails sent out in response to requests made by students in the forum. (They also sent out an email reminder notice when the course started).
To keep costs down all the assignments on the course I'm taking are designed to be automatically graded - so it's a mix of multiple-choice questions and numerical questions (as it's a math-related class). I'm guessing that long essay tests would be too time-consuming to grade for a free course, so I doubt any course would rely on them.
Tips: well, my big problem has been not leaving study/assignments until the last minute before the deadline. :/ I'm trying to pace myself through the week, and study for about an hour every day. I've been watching the videos with a text file open so I can type my own notes as I go; that's helped me out a lot. ALSO THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING but at first I didn't realise I could just download the videos rather than streaming them - I'm doing a LOT better now I can just play them straight off my hard-drive rather than over my dodgy DSL connection. /fails always
Those courses you linked look really interesting... I don't know anything about design but the second one reminds me a bit of the intro to formal logic class I did in my first semester of university; it's a really useful way of thinking though it can get a bit dry. It really can't hurt to sign up for them, can it? If something else comes up and you have to drop it, you won't have lost anything. (Ngl, I think I'm glad I only signed up for one thing at once because otherwise my procrastinatory habits would kill me, but those two seem to only overlap for three weeks, and you could always see how well you're doing with the design course and then sign up for the logic course if you think it's going good. I don't think there's a limit on class sizes or a deadline for signing up, so as long as you get in there before the course starts it should be fine).
Good luck anon!
Re: coursera
(Anonymous) 2012-08-12 06:50 am (UTC)(link)