lecturers

Then there are several lecturers who are paid USD 40000, doing a better job at lecturing, and more lecturing altogether.

The main lecturers, Albert and Robert, both cover the material well and make themselves available to students of any programming knowledge.

In the higher education it is not a lecturers job to convey the material to even the slowest of the class.

You have lecturers, postdocs, PhD students, and other researchers all churning out papers too.

Especially bad lecturers will give the bulk of students high grades to preclude complaints.

Additionally, many lecturers have office hours - time specifically allotted to meet with students.

Terrible lecturers find ways to rationalize the poor grades of their students (i.e.

First, professors who consistently get good ratings are usually very good lecturers.

My university's CS & Soft Eng courses had them, but they were bullet points in the curriculum that the lecturers were neither interested in nor competent with.

For example I got my current job through one of my ex-lecturers.

And, of course, some lecturers are world-class.

Clearly, not all lecturers are created equal.

Doing an undergraduate applied science degree, one of my lecturers taught me the phrase "In theory, there is no difference between practice and theory.

So, source control meant "use RCS on your local machine for one assignment (individual, not group work.)" Automatic testing meant writing some scripts that produced specified predictable results, for the lecturers to run the assignments against.

I'll also note that if parents feel strongly about their children learning creationism, nothing prevents them from teaching it themselves, or buying books that teach it, or even inviting "learned" lecturers to present the topic.

As an adult occasionally looking for online lectures, I now tend to specifically avoid the more "TED-style" lecturers, even though they are initially appealing, and find I get more out of a more straightforward, sober style.

Lecturers would hand the notes out(but they were also available online as pdfs), that was all that was needed.