The Multilingual Instructor

Preface for the Instructor

You are about to teach a course that will probably give students their second exposure to linear algebra. During their first brush with the subject, your students probably worked with Euclidean spaces and matrices. In contrast, this course will emphasize abstract vector spaces and linear maps. The audacious title of this book deserves an explanation. Almost all linear algebra books use determin...

Instructor : Nikhil Bansal Scribe :

In this lecture we will be looking into the secretary problem, and an interesting variation of the problem called the incentive comparable secretary problem. For both of these problems we will show how they can be solved though a correspondence between all possible strategies and the feasible solution space to a linear program. In both cases this will allow us to derive an algorithm and prove t...

Flight Instructor Training Module

Pathology of the Domestic Ferret Instructor : Bruce

The purpose of this 2-hour block of instruction is to gain knowledge and experience in the gross diagnosis of diseases of the domestic ferret (Mustela putorius furo). Of course, the study of disease in this species far exceeds what can be presented in a twohour block of time, but I will attempt to cover a number of diseases of interest. In some cases, inclusion or exclusion from this collection...

Instructor Rating Markets

We describe the design of Instructor Rating Markets in which students trade on the ratings that will be received by instructors, with new ratings revealed every two weeks. The markets provide useful dynamic feedback to instructors on the progress of their class, while at the same time enabling the controlled study of prediction markets where traders can affect the outcomes they are trading on. ...