Timeline for Course development: can I pay someone to make slides for the course?
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| Jun 11, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | user4052054 | @MassimoOrtolano Cannot agree more with that. The best courses I can remember from college were the ones where the teacher used the blackboard. The other ones just tended to be just the teacher reading the slides (which in turn used to be just bullet lists with the same things as the books of the course). | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 18:43 | comment | added | Matthew Leingang | Your university might have an office set up to assist with this kind of thing already. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 14:04 | comment | added | Scott Seidman | If you take this approach, what happens when you're in front of the classroom and don't understand your slides? There's a reason why course development takes time. | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 13:56 | answer | added | April Salutes Monica C. | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 11, 2019 at 3:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/1138279982025887744 | ||
| Jun 10, 2019 at 23:02 | answer | added | Daniel R. Collins | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 19:40 | comment | added | Peteris | @DmitrySavostyanov there's nothing wrong with paying others to do my research for me, and it's a common practice both in academia and industry to hire all kinds of research assistants, lab technicians, technical writers, software engineers etc to do parts of the research. Probably most research is done by someone senior getting funding to research something and paying postdocs, students, and other personnel to do most of the actual research, and doing so is perfectly reasonable, as long as attribution of authorship is handled properly. But yes, the same reasons would apply for teaching. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 18:59 | comment | added | Parrever | Do you have the ability to hire a teaching assistant through your school or uni? They can help you put together a slide lecture. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 18:15 | comment | added | user3067860 | I've had professors use author-provided slides before, and it was very obvious when they hadn't spent adequate time reviewing them, as the results were quite bad. So I agree with @JonCuster that the time spent actually creating slides is actually small compared to the rest of the time spent preparing. (In fact, if you're very well prepared the slides can be quite sketchy, just enough to keep you in order and avoid skipping.) | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 17:34 | comment | added | Stefan | As for 2) you might be able to find a student at the university/college familiar with the subjects for your course. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 17:11 | comment | added | Mefitico | I had a few teachers whose courses were pretty much like the summary of the reference textbook. Even the examples were the same. They did not prepare slides, but rather used the chalkboard. People generally didn't complain about this. If you have a good book to use as reference, it should be easier to do so than to ask someone else to write slides that you'll have to review anyway, and this person's work is more prone to errors than a good textbook. I can hardly believe the total energy investment of this to be more than what you'll need to outsource the course preparation. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 15:58 | answer | added | Tryb Ghost | timeline score: 5 | |
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| Jun 10, 2019 at 15:01 | comment | added | Peter K. | Not an answer to your questions, but another way around the problem: find a textbook that covers what you want, and use the author-provided slides. Many newer texts come with access to complete slide decks for the course, usually available from the publisher's website (after registering with an agent of the publisher). | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 14:27 | comment | added | Uwe | Has there been an explicit requirement that you develop new course material starting from scratch, or have you just been asked to give a new course for which you happen not to have legacy slides available? In other words, has your department told you "produce new course material", or "give a new course (and we don't care whether you reuse your own old slides, or the old slides of a former colleague, or the slides that come with some text book)"? The latter is more common. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 14:06 | comment | added | henning no longer feeds AI | Are you asking about designing slides or designing a course? Because these are very different things. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 13:20 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Who actually learns the most during a course? Answer: the teacher. Sorry, but you need to struggle with figuring out what material to be covered when and how. That is the hard part. Then the slides are easy. If you don't do the first bit, you won't be able to deliver the lecture and answer the questions. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 12:37 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 24 | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 12:32 | answer | added | Buffy | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 9:16 | comment | added | lllllllllllll | @mlk the former one. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 9:10 | comment | added | mlk | Do you want someone to create the slides from scratch or just someone who formats your detailed notes and makes diagrams, illustrations and stuff? The latter is a classic student TA-job, while the former will be quite questionable. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 7:55 | comment | added | Massimo Ortolano | Why don't you use the blackboard instead? | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 7:36 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | Typically, one can reuse slides when they teach an existing course. Your were asked to design a course from scratch. This is academic work, same as writing papers. | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 7:30 | comment | added | lllllllllllll | @DmitrySavostyanov That's obviously different. Doing research is explore some thing new and unknown. Let me put it in this way, typically you can reuse some "legacy" slides (if exists) in your department when teaching a course, can you reuse other people's unpublished paper? | |
| Jun 10, 2019 at 7:28 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | Why don't you consider paying someone to do your research for you? Because the same reasons apply for teaching. | |
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