Re:Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition
by hotcrossbunny on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @02:55PM
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This is as much about their lack of historic engagement with new platforms than a fundamental difficulty in adapting the teaching process or content. Universities have been very invested in a high cost model. It's time to change. This like many things we are now discovering are ripe for reform and have lacked only the right catalyst to set a painful but necessary progress in motion.
Re:Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition
by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:48PM
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It is about content - it does make sence for each university to produce essentially the same content 100 times
Exactly this. It is not the same experience being in the same class and teaching. All the energy that could have gone into that is now spent twiddling with gadgets. There is no coordinated 'course production system' in many environments. So teachers have to improvise and they are ending up on different ecosystems. Many of them are now learning to twiddle cameras instead of helping out students. I think many universities have to take a 'gap year' to bring in companies to help them reorg across departments.