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This is just an excellent visualization to explain a concept that is hard to imagine.

Lots of difficult concepts are actually very simple once you boil them down to the fundamentals and visualize them.

This has big implications for education. Many concepts like derivatives in finance, algorithmns in computer science are suprisingly simple.

I remember a visualization for Paxos (a distributed consensus algorithmn) which basically have an actor to represent each node in the network. That was the moment I finally "got it".

It is a shame that educators are still so backwards at how they communicate concepts to students. and how ineffective that is. I think it comes down to the fact that professors in universities have to play dual role of being a researcher + to teach. And since they are recognized for publishing papers and not so much for making helpful visualzations to explain concepts to first year students. Education part is neglected.




Even disregarding the topic to be taught, as a trainer / facilitator there should be a responsibility to ensure the following:

* create content that matches required outcomes for the course

* have assessments that measure leaner competency in the content

* account for different learning styles and teaching styles that may be required

* assessments and training techniques adequately account for people with learning difficulties

Almost all the lecturers I had literally sat in the classroom, faced the projector wall, and read out the word-heavy slides.

We then had a final exam worth 75%-90% of our grade.

Calling them educators is laughable.


My experience was nearly the opposite of that. Projects were half, homework 20, tests were the rest, however if your test was higher than the rest of your grade, you'd get that instead.




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