From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-09-01T04:00:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby / Rails Training


On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:58 , ironmanusa@hushmail.com wrote:

> The University of Washington was running a course but looks like 
> its stopped this year in favor of  Objective-C. 

we were... it didn't stop in favor of objc, it stopped because we were putting way too much time into the course for what we were getting paid. UW really was expecting us to do 4-6 hours a week grading when in reality it was more like 20. I think that made it a better class, but with many of the students having similar expectations as UW (meaning, they were poor students and expecting to be able to get away with shoddy work), the burnout level was quite high on the instructor side.

I still have all the materials and would be happy to share them in some way... but I'm not willing to put 20 hours a week into grading. (esp for free :)