edX focuses on more challenging problems.Īssuming a student is prepared for such problems, they will learn more by completing them. Right now, for example, you cannot start Calculus 1A and there is no date set for when it will be available.ġ. You cannot, for example, start the course sequence at any time you must wait for it to open.
OCW is available year-round, while edX is only available in cohorts.
MIT CALCULUS PRACTICE PROBLEMS FREE
OCW provides free exams with solutions edX's exams are behind a paywallĥ. No such extra practice exists in the edX class.Ĥ. OCW assigns selective problems for you to work on, but if you need more practice, the extra problems are there for you. OCW has a massive problem bank with answers to all of the hundreds of problems offered there. Additionally, the OCW lectures are videos of actual classes, so they are occasionally punctuated by students asking for clarifications about things that I myself wished I could ask about.ģ. The edX lectures move quicker and explain less. I found the OCW lectures more helpful to a student like me who had not studied calculus before. EdX cuts much of the lecture content of OCW and replaces it with their own shorter lectures. The two (student?) instructors take time to walk the viewer through each step of a problem, and they help to fill in any gaps you may have had after watching just the lectures.Ģ. EdX cuts many of the recitation videos, which were among the most helpful bits of the OCW course. Oddly enough, another course from MIT (with some of the same content) does significantly more to pedagogically engage with students, is less discouraging for newcomers to calculus, and is, I think, better in terms of instruction.ġ. The video lectures are akin to someone slowly reading out of a textbook, and little effort is made to anticipate issues students might have and to provide elaboration and encourage understanding. It's unclear to me who the intended audience is for the course, since it doesn't seem at all to be geared toward students new to calculus many of the video lectures are short and lack context for the discussion of each new concept. I'm currently finishing up MIT's Calculus 1B course on edX and I've found it not to be particularly well set up to teach students calculus.
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