In response to my last post, several people asked about the format of Guy
Yollen's upcoming online R Programming for Finance course offered through
UW's professional continuing education (PCE) program. 

 

1)      For those of you who want to see an Media Site streaming video
example of a lecture by Guy Yollin that for the forthcoming winter quarter
AMATH 500 R Programming for Computational Finance, go to
www.amath.washington.edu/studies/compfin and click on the link

Example of winter quarter AMATH 500M R Programming for Finance lecture by
Guy Yollin
<http://mediasite.hs.washington.edu/Mediasite/Viewer/?peid=544d33844e904efb9
68980ba1cf662901d> 

 

2)      Further information concerning the live online course delivery is
provided below.

 

3)      This AMATH 500 course may be taken on a stand-alone course by
individuals with appropriate background (see
www.amath.washington.edu/studies/compfin/online/courses.shtml#500 )

 

 

AMATH 500 ONLINE  COURSE DELIVERY DETAILS:

 

Lectures:  These are supported by Media Site technology and may be viewed
live at lecture time and may also be downloaded subsequently for later
viewing at the student's convenience.  Media Site provides two windows by
default, one small and one large, e.g., one focused on the lecturer speaking
or writing at the white-board and the other focus computer screen capture of
slides.  The user may instantly toggle the two windows to reverse which is
large and which is small, and may zoom in the larger window.  During
playback the user may also advance or retreat the video to portions of
particular interest.

 

Homeworks, Exams, Announcement, General Forum:   These are supported by a
product called Moodle, which encourages interaction among students and
between student and instructor via postings by individuals in either group.
There is a homework drop-box.  Homework is graded and returned to students
individually via the drop box.  Exams are carried out at proctored locations
and by individually selected proctors under a proctor agreement with the
University of Washington.

 

Additional Teaching Assistant and Instructor Interaction Method:  Often
weekly sessions with students are arranged by the Teaching Assistant using
Adobe Connect Meeting technology that supports multiple windows, TA viewing,
audio and a chat window for students to post questions for response by TA.
Instructor sometimes joints TA in this process.  

 

 

Eric Zivot                                               

Robert Richards Chaired Professor of Economics

Adjunct Professor of Finance                            

Adjunct Professor of Statistics

Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics (starting Sept, 2011)

Department of Economics

Box 353330                  email:  ezivot@u.washington.edu 

University of Washington    phone:  206-543-6715            

Seattle, WA 98195-3330
www:  http://faculty.washington.edu/ezivot                  

 

 


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