I’ve been wondering about the course as well. Yesterday I had to go back into my old emails to make sure I wasn’t forgetting to do something (I started to worry that I missed the course). The registration email said that more info will be sent out before the course starts. I guess the prof. will be busy this weekend. 
I joined up. I don’t know if they can teach an old dawg new tricks or not.
I signed up. Looking forward to it. Been reading Brewing by Lewis et all to get my head around some topics I am not real strong in.
Sounds interesting but I’m one of those guys who can understand the concepts but glazes over once you start wading into the details of the science. I received my BA in political science for a reason…
I signed up as well. And the intro to chem class as well as I don’t really have that much background beyond a basic understanding.
Who’s up for an AHA Forum Study group?
Yeah, we should post questions about the class in the forum.
Just saw on my Yahoo email that the course starts tomorrow and the course materials are on the website.
I’m not seeing much except for some forum talk.
Well that was fun! took the self assessment test. 12 questions, got 7 correct and 5 incorrect. The ones I got wrong were, not surprisingly, the more hard sciency ones.
However I will say that there is one question on there that is scored very strangely indeed. It’s not wrong, but it’s not a clear cut 1 answer that is correct all the rest are incorrect situation. I’ll be curious to hear what others experience with it.
I won’t say which one at this time because I’d hate to be a spoiler.
I went 7-5. That last question was bs though lol.
Though I suspect I know the question you were referring to… I wanted to answer both… but went with the one I thought they were most likely to choose… and I got it wrong.
9/12 one correct was a good guess, one wrong was BS, two were beyond me.
I’m signed up as well. Looking forward to starting this evening.
How long was the class or was it just the test?
The ‘lecture’ portion is broken up into pieces looks to be around 30-60 minutes worth. The readings are all available so you can do as much as you want. very self paced.
Each unit goes up weekly it looks like so it’ll be a fun Monday morning/evening activity.
I read some of the comments on the self evaluation quiz and it looks like we weren’t the only ones who felt that particular question was a little suspect. The prof says he will be fixing it so I’m taking the credit and calling it 8/12 and I only feel stupid about the one I got wrong concerning the purpose of malting.
Ok got 10/12
12 for 12, but I got credit for a question I didn’t answer and the discussion on the side gave me the answer to the last question.
Im enjoying this course thus far, Dr Morvant does a great job of explaining things concisely in a way i can understand. Getting my brain to remember when quizzed is a totally different monster:D
I do product engineering for two accredited online schools (i.e., writing software), this is the kind of thing I’m in the middle of daily. Seems like a prototype product with a lot of promise; it’s fun to check it out.
Initial thoughts:
- Videos did not play well, I gave up and went to the assessment.
- I would think an initial assessment would have quite a few more questions. I was 8 for 12 with no chemistry background, couldn’t seem to correct the third question. Building course material and writing exams takes effort, curious to see how well the reading material covers the next exam.
- Forums and social aspect - we’ve dropped all of that; it’s superfluous.
- As far as I can tell this is a MOOC, they usually don’t survive unless there are paying students in a decent portion of classes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
It’s good to take advantage of this and read up on all the material provided.
I didn’t have any issues with the videos playing. I was actually surprised at the high quality of the video. I will say I was irritated that the next video didn’t play automatically and I had to actually go to the next video and hit play…
9 out of 12.The last answer total bs but if you read the courses the Wikipedia link they have the answer is in there. So from now on I’ll read all info 1st and watch videos 2nd before taking quiz.