Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill...
by chongli on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @04:59PM
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That’s fine. I’m taking philosophy courses toward my minor and they tend to be impossible to fail. Having said that, I spend huge amounts of time doing the readings and writing the papers. I don’t need to, but I do anyway.
When I talk about students taking bird courses, I mean the kind where they never show up to class and just memorize a bunch of stuff before the midterm. They walk away with an 80, completely satisfied, having learned nothing.
Re:Parents demand academic publisher drop Proctorio surveill...
by com2kid on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:24PM
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I've honestly never seen that.
Seems to me, that is like paying for a nice steak dinner, coming in, sitting down, eating the potatoes, then leaving.
Like, why? The point of college is to learn things. Balancing course load is important, but not learning at all is just a waste of time.
1. The art of listening to music
2. Geographic Information Systems
Both courses were pretty much impossible to fail.
The first course expanded my musical horizons and led to me enjoying almost any genre of music, whereas before I had listened to only a few select genres. Huge QoL improvement.
The 2nd course had proven useful whenever the topic of mapping has come up, which includes understanding property lines and real estate.
A bunch of smart people work at universities who are there to teach students stuff. It is up to the students to learn.