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Crowdsourcing Applied Combinatorics policies

January 11th, 2010

We’ve already covered the fact that I write long course policy documents. The Spring 2010 Applied Combinatorics (MATH 3012) Course Policies and Expectations are seven pages long. Last time I taught this course, they were four. However, last time I wasn’t doing as many different types of assessments and wasn’t using much active learning in class. This time, I had a lot of explaining to do up front. Inspired by Maria Anderson’s post over at Teaching College Math, I decided to get my students to actually read at least part of the course policies by crowdsourcing them. Read more »