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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9542420" data-attributes="member: 42856">Sorry for adding to the thread derail, but it's really awful professsional practice. There are professors who made books and who teach things in a way that just buying their book is enough to get the exact same information, and without more attention to individual effort, and that's already a sign that they are not adding a lot of value by teaching. If I could be replaced when teaching by reading a book on the topic, I'd step down from teaching this course and just tell the student to read the damn book. But still, not everyone loves to teach and some great researcher can be very average teachers, so it's understandable that this situation happens. However, forcing people to buy their own book, it seems beyond the pale to me.On the other hand, I looked at the RateMyProfessor site... I am not certain I am confident in the opinion they report. The first review I got for this particular professor was tagged with: (LOTS OF HOMEWORK) and (SKIP CLASS, YOU WON'T PASS), leading to a very bad mark. So basically, teachers get bad grades because they require students to work and attend the class? Wow... The top tags are also (LECTURE HEAVY), (THOUGH GRADER) and (RESPECTED), with many post complaining about having a lot of work to do. I loved the complaints about him posting no resources like podcast so people are obliged to attend his classes... The whole site strikes me as strange, where basically failing students complains about lessons they failed, while A students say "it's quite easy" "this teacher is nice" and so on...Interestingly, I clicked on his colleague "Sicun Gao" and "Tailor Greg-Fitzpatrick" who got a near top grade (4.9/5) and they were rated with difficulty 2.4 and 2.7 respectively, while his own course was rated with difficulty 3.8. Many comments (all from A/A+ students) on Professor Gao emphasize the lots of opportunity to get extra credit. It seems that to be a beloved professor, you just need to make everyone pass or don't ask too much from the students? I wouldn't take bad mark on this site as a bad sign of anyone's teaching ability.</blockquote>

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