Education Grid - Components of Learning

This is a first internet prototype of what I see are the components of learning something. It will be represented here with tables, in a grid format. A good artist or powerpoint person might represent it differently. If you want to contribute feel free to e-mail me at occupant@kurtsimmons.com

The follwing list describes some of the features of the table below.
  • You will see little mini-tables below each category. This is part of my tentatively named Segmented Markets Hypothesis. The theory is that you are not really dealing with a whole category, you are dealing with each individual component. For example, you do not just have a class of students, you have a class of A students, flunkies, struggling but motivated students, pass-fail studeents, and perhaps one or two other major categories. The ultimate division is to treat all components as discrete, rather than grouping, but the cost can be quite high.
  • The next step is probably to address issues in various combinations. Ideally there would be a page for every situation, but I will see how the process goes. For example, how to you treat an A student in a Geography course, taught by a professor who is knows their stuff, but is really boring, when the class is held in a large lecture hall?
STUDENT TYPE COURSE TYPE
  • Type A/Grade A
  • Hard working, will struggle
  • Disorganized
  • Permanent C Student
  • Flunkie
  • Mostly Facts (Geography)
  • Process/Rules (Accounting, Math)
  • Verbal/Literature (English)
  • Laboratory (Chemistry)
  • Wicked (Design+Facts - Programming)
ISSUES AND INTERSECTIONS
  • Financial Limitations and Issues
    (Equipment, Teachers, Class space)
  • Size of Student Body
    (Lots of students usually means lots of big classes)
  • Curriculum Specialization
    (Full sized university to small trade school)
  • Opportunity Costs
    (More labs = Fewer classrooms)
MEDIUM TYPE INSTRUCTOR TYPE
  • Lecture Hall
  • Medium Classroom
  • Lab
  • Internet
  • Textbook Only
  • Knows Stuff, Boring
  • Knows stuff, Entertaining
  • Entertaining, Knows little
  • Lost grad student
  • Disinterested, but there