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Udacity: Driving Through the Learning Curve and Other Udacity Teaching Philosophies
"What we have to do as teachers and educators is to understand and read what we already know about good teaching and learning practices and incorporate them into an online learning space," says our instructor Kunal Chawla to Charlie Chung from Class Central, an online course aggregator. In a recent interview, Charlie asked Kunal about Udacity's teaching philosophy and some of the design decisions behind his new course Programming Foundations with Python. You can read the text and view video clips from this conversation here. Kunal explaining how he designs courses at Udacity Kunal explains the steps involved in creating a course at Udacity, which include identifying the learner and determining the learning objectives. This is where Kunal "spends a lot of time" in the design process. "The kind of learner I was going for," says Kunal, "was someone who wanted to learn how to program but was somewhat intimidated by programming." He goes on to explain the other stages of the cou…