Good. So how will the lectures look?

I've been giving the lectures just like I've been giving this lecture only standing in front of you,

not as a big sea of black tiles, but actual faces in a lecture room.

Online lectures are hard. They're hard for you

because you can't see each other and can't really communicate well. They're difficult for me because I only see tiles and I have no idea

whether you're understanding anything I say.

Normally when I look at people in the audience, I get a pretty good

idea of whether more than 50% are actually sleeping or doing other things. And here I have no clue,

which is a pity. Learning is a social enterprise and not being able to see anybody makes it hard on me.

Also makes it hard on me to stay motivated.

So there's also the idea that you can just basically let people watch my videos of the past,

which many of you are actually doing even during classroom times. And it's very, very appealing.

I have this one student who apologized to me who said,

Yeah, I usually don't come to class because I can watch you twice the speed

if I do the video and you cannot match that. Indeed, I cannot. I have no problem with you watching the videos only.

90 minutes is too long. Puts everybody to sleep, puts me to sleep.

So what we've done is I will want to do something completely new here.

I want to do what is sometimes called flipped classroom or inverted classroom.

That's the latest craze. And the idea is that you engage students by letting them prepare what we call

plenary sessions. And in the plenary sessions, we answer questions, pose questions and discuss.

And that seems to work relatively well. So that's what I want to do this semester.

One of the things we've done is we've recut all the videos.

And this here is the last frontal lecture that you're going to get.

What you're getting instead is we'll have during class times, we'll have plenary sessions.

I'm expecting you to prepare for the plenary sessions via reading the course notes, for instance.

Watching the video nuggets. And here I do have the correct course ID or reading the book.

Whatever works best for you. Whatever works best for Mary doesn't have to work for Peter and the other way around.

And I'll post the kind of reading and watch lists on the forum. Indeed, the first four, no, first three watch lists are already on there.

And then the plenary sessions we discuss. We'll start out with questions from you.

Professor, I didn't understand slide 14. Could we talk about the definition of blended learning again?

That's something like this. If you don't have questions, and that's something I tried last semester.

And in the first couple of plenary sessions, students had questions. So I've been preparing lots of questions of my own so that we have

something to discuss about. And the idea is that in the plenary sessions, we'll put these challenge or questionnaires and put you into breakout rooms of size about four.

And then I call you back after three N plus chi minutes, and then you report on your findings.

We'll see how that works with 200 students.

The plenary sessions are not the same as the tutorials. The plenary is about the course materials, whereas application and practices for the AI one tutorials.

So it's good to go to both.

Right. What does a questionnaire look like?

Well, here's one.

The typical thing is questions like how many scientific articles were submitted to the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

That's the top level and biggest conference.

That's annual.

And in 1916, which was a new New York City. And then I would sometimes have multiple suggestions, and then I would put you into the breakout rooms, which

Yeah, which I give you a certain amount of minutes and then you can actually, and then we discuss it. And then

we discuss the answers.

Right.

Somebody advises against breakout rooms.

I'm hoping that the inactive numbers

go away. If this doesn't work, I want to use this. I've seen examples where it works extremely well.

I'm hoping that the people who do not profit from this will either stay away or learn how to open their mouths and discuss.