[montyevans]

I don't think the central focus of this resource is to teach Quantum Mechanics, but rather to test a new teaching method - the relative importance of yet another Intro to Quantum Mechanics course is tiny compared to developing methods potentially applicable across the entire space of online learning. As you say, the SRS questions could be better, but the idea of embedding them into an online essay / course is, to my mind, novel, potentially enormously valuable, and worth highlighting.

Is it the notion of embedding SRS questions into the medium per se. that you find superficial and unhelpful, or just the specific questions that Andy and Michael chose? If the latter, would you suggest any alternative questions that might be less patronizing / more effective?

[whatshisface]

They should be testing it on something that involves more remembering and less thinking, like microbiology. Physics is the absolute worst subject to test any new book-writing method in, because the book practically doesn't matter; it's all in what happens inside the student's head as they do the exercises. The fact that the Moore method has half a chance of working for topology students shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that for highly logic-based fields like physics and math that the book matters so little that the absence of any book or lecture at all will still result in the material being taught!

[sarbaz]

Approximately half the math textbooks I study from basically do this already. It works very well, but IMO mostly because the questions are not easy. You actually have to stop and think for a few minutes before moving on.