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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have one college student at home doing work and I'll tell you, I'm not sure if it is because this all came about so suddenly or what, but the educational she's receiving now is NOT worth even 1/4th of what we paid.

I have another one going into college this fall and we have the same questions/thoughts.

My hope is that the professors will have more time to adapt and produce better quality lectures.  Right now, the prerecorded ones she's been viewing are terrible.  The live Zoom classes are not much better.  Lots of background noise and students goofing off in general.

I took online college classes nearly 15 years ago when getting a second degree that were better quality than what she's gotten for $76k!  [/quote]

It's one thing to design a class to be on-line--a team of tech people do it, work with a template etc and roll it out --often with a bunch of adjunct instructors who are experienced in being good on-line teachers but not experts in their field and whose primary function is to teach that class.  Professors who were working at institutions where they are primarily valued for their expertise, their mentoring, their face-to-face instruction, their design and running of programs, their research labs (which also mentor students) had to roll this out on quick demand as they are also simultaneously adapting to mentoring their grad students, complying with all the changing federal rules on their research labs and data which had to be secured, adapting programs and policies to comply with FERPA, disability acts, make university decisions quickly about academic policies grading(a lot of actions have to be voted on by faculty groups) .  What you are experiencing is not on-line teaching but rather emergency response teaching.[/quote]

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