[LINK] A global teacher of 1,516 lessons and counting

[Stephen Wilson]

I am not criticising the content of the videos; I am sure I don't know
enough to be able to authoritatively judge his expertise across so many
subjects (which could raise another cynical line of inquiry about jacks
of all trades ...).

I am complaining that the article is all about Quantity Assurance.
We're marvelling at the sheer number of his lectures without knowing
much else about him.  And the reporter compares the number of daily
views with the number of enrolled students at a large (and prestigious)
university.  The comparison is inane, worse than apples and oranges.  At
least they're both fruit.

Cheers,

Steve Wilson.


Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Stephen Wilson wrote:
>
>   
>> And how do we know that most Youtube viewers haven't watched the first 
>> 15 secs, realised that the lecture isn't as interesting as the baby 
>> biting his brother, and moved on? 
>>     
>
> You don't know that but that doesn't mean it should be discounted.
>
> I recently had a need to rapidly increase my confidence with basic
> statistics. Khan Academy's statictics videos really hit the mark.
>
> My 7 year old daughter is has view the first 6 or so arithmetic
> videos, start to finish. The only reason she didn't go further
> was because they were getting too advanced.
>
> I personally give these videos a big thumbs up.
>
> Erik
>