Sam This is pretty silly - if you are balking over how to name notes, you are not going to get far with that attitude.
As someone who also teaches, I don't totally agree. Some underlying problems have been unearthed: no context given to the exercise, the situation with assignments. Having come out of the woodworks it can be addressed. And a student can't always pinpoint the actual problem at first go. Years ago I talked with a British teacher about quiet compliance. He wanted to hear about problems. If a student smiles every week, comes back the next week with good work but that had taken hours and hours to solve: "How can I adjust my teaching?" "How do I know that my approach is actually working?"
This being a classroom situation there would not be much room for the one-on-one and asking questions. If everything is being crammed, the teacher probably knows that it won't be the same and is stuck with the teaching assignment he's been given. I'd not underestimate the strength of fellow students with their varied backgrounds. That includes this place.
I related my observations of the Coursera theory course that seems very similar to what is being described here. I'm not that enamoured by the idea. In regard to "attitude" there is also this: You can find you don't like something, state that you don't like it, and still go ahead, bite the bullet, and do the work.
