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Sports and the University - 82lsju - 03-19-2018

New free online Stanford course analyzes relationship between sports and universities in the United States

Co-instructed by Stanford professors Blakey Vermeule and Susan Stephens, a new massive open online course examines the history of sports at American universities and fosters thoughtful debates over the issue of payment for student athletes and other controversial topics.

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The class will reopen as a self-paced course in the spring quarter on Stanford Online, which offers free online courses taught by Stanford faculty to lifelong learners worldwide. Most of the interviews and lectures from the class are also available on iTunes.

https://news.stanford.edu/2018/03/15/new-online-course-tackles-culture-history-american-college-athletics/

Re: Sports and the University - martyup - 03-20-2018

In 1981, I took formal logic at Stanford.  It was self paced and 100% computer taught.  However, we had to go to a room on campus that was filled with computer terminals and login to our account to progress through the lessons.  You had to pass a quiz after each lesson to move forward to the next.  This was pre-internet and quite cutting edge.

Re: Sports and the University - Papa John - 03-20-2018

I also took that class, martyup, although I think it was a year later. Philosophy 57? A classmate claimed the second floor computer lab was locked in the dead of night and he and some friends took a bike rack and leaned it against the building, used it as a ladder and climbed through the window. Probably apocryphal (and maybe for a different class?), but good times were had in any case.

Re: Sports and the University - JJJ - 03-20-2018

I took that course maybe the year after Papa John. Rode my bike from Roble at all sorts of nighttime hours. Later learned that you could just string together a bunch of equations and type TAUT and correctly answer many problems...