A report from Keith Devlin's and Coursera’s Introduction to Mathematical Thinking MOOC

I’m six or so weeks into Keith Devlin’s 10 week Introduction to Mathematical Thinking, along with some tens of thousands of others. Here is a longish thumbnail sketch of the design of the course, followed by two appendices. Appendix 1 concerns peer review. Appendix 2 is what the course web site has to say about grading and certificates of completion.
Comments, questions and corrections would be most welcome.
1. The course is advertised as needing about 10 study hours per week. This is about right: though in my case I had to skimp a lot while I was on holiday, other than wrestling unsuccessfully with a proof that had been set as course work, the non-fruit of which is shown above.
2. There are one or two 15-30 minute video lectures per week. All have so far has consisted of a mixture of Devlin talking confidently and intently to camera in sort of “newscaster” mode, and Devlin explaining things with pen and paper, very much in the vein of the 2011 Norvig and Thrun AI course. Devlin has retained his East Yorkshire/Hull accent, which has the effect of making him sound local. To me at least. Read more...