<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div>I take a debate-encouraging position against the standard <br>cohort-based, curve- and letter-graded style of teaching in <br>this blog post from when I was the USDLA (distance learning)<br></div><div>conference:<br></div></div><br><a href="http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2015/04/against-grain.html">http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2015/04/against-grain.html</a><br><br></div>But we have more in common than what divides us, as distance <br>learning schools, I'm thinking.  Especially those of us coming in<br></div><div>from outside, experimental and unaccredited (but what's to stop<br></div><div>Michigan from offering math credit to a high schooler taking our<br></div><div>Python sequence? -- nothing but red tape?).<br></div><br></div>This article is making the rounds a work today:<br><pre><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/coding-classes-attract-college-grads-who-want-better-jobs">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-07/coding-classes-attract-college-grads-who-want-better-jobs</a></pre>More discussion on python-cuba:<br><br><a href="https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-May/000037.html">https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-cuba/2015-May/000037.html</a><br><br></div>Kirby<br><br></div><br></div>