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untorquer@lemmy.world 2 days agoSpeaking from a decade ago but Khan Academy’s system(at the time called mastery, not sure what it is now) was leaps and bounds better for learning calculus.
Also I’m pretty sure this meme is from back then too.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
I love Khan academy so much. I don’t know how good it is nowadays, but it’s one of the things that shaped my perspective on the internet as I was growing up alongside the changing web; Yes, there is all sorts of awfulness online, and so many complex harms, but there are also so many awesome learning resources and enthusiastic people who want to share their knowledge. Khan academy did a lot for democratising knowledge, and is a concrete answer in the discussion of “what might ‘learning outside of the academy’ look like?”
The key difference between Pearson’s shitty maths thing and Khan academy’s equivalent is that Khan academy was started by a dude who was genuinely interested in bringing learning materials to people, and exploring online teaching as a new medium. Pearson is a soulless entity that exists to wring money out of everything it can.
untorquer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well the system is just an improvement over examination based evaluation too. Doing 5 problems from a discrete concept correctly in a row is a far better proof of knowledge than one problem worth 20% of your grade.