I have to agree with comments about Roman (I have several of his DVDs and older VHS tapes) and Martin. Roman is hard to watch for long, and Martin is much better. Danny Kopec is a sure cure for insomnia. The videos on www.chesslecture.com are much better, at least in my opinion.
And, hey! All college profs aren't like that! I DO ask for comments when I lecture. ;-)
Of course, that doesn't mean that my students don't doze off anyway...
There are some great college profs but rare. We have a Univ. prof who is always asking for feedback. After the class, how was the lecture?, are the assignments to hard? to long? Labs are okay, to long?
Midterm was okay, to hard/long?
End of the course, did you like the course? book was okay? what can i change etc?
On and on he goes hehe but its nice seeing that he cares.
We also get him to move our assignment due date and stuff now and then from friday at 12 pm to monday at 5 pm! hehe 🙂
I don't mean comments about the lecture. Was it too hard? Too long? Etc. I mean comments intended on drawing the student into the content of the course. For example, if discussing the French Revolution, Do you think the Reign of Terror was an aberration or a necessary step to rid the country of counter-revolutionaries that threatened the young republic? In this way you can link it to modern politics. When I taught (high school English) I always thought it was a success when the students began arguing among themselves about the subject matter. And if they walk out the door still arguing, you've done your job. I don't know how this would apply to chemistry or calculus, but i never taught those subjects. Unfortunately, in chess dvd's it's sheer lecture and you don't have the chance to challenge and question the way you can, say, if you had a tutor. I like Andrew Martin because he speaks from a class tournament level, not a grandmaster who knows it all.