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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a foreign based student at a US university and the school is going full, online, then the students must leave the US and do the courses elsewhere.

This is incredibly sad for a lot of students who did all the right things and may not have the resources or ability in their home country, to take online courses - [b]no computer or internet[/b] or govt restrictions on G-Suite etc.

And for the US schools, it is an incredible financial burden.[/quote]

How could they have no computer or internet if they have the money to come to the US to study?  [/quote]

There are places where Internet is politically or geographically unavailable / unreliable, regardless of your money. Sometimes it is restricted certain hours, which is a problem if your class meets on Eastern Standard Time. Or they may have gotten here via scholarship, community fundraising, or relative's bequest.

My SIL works at a SLAC and some of her foreign students are not safe to go home after becoming "westernized" or because they are gay.  They would not have family support even if the family is rich.[/quote]

[b]and due to time difference lectures would be in the middle of the night and working on group projects is compromised.[/b][/quote]

I'm the PP you responded to and your point is absolutely right. My DC this spring at home had one peer in a class who was overseas; when that student led a group project (required in the class) she had to do it at some ungodly hour for her in order to meet virtually with students in the U.S. And the students in the U.S. were across all time zones. Finding a time that worked for everyone did get done but it was a huge effort. This was a student who is in a very, very tech-advanced, wifi-driven country. Imagine a student in a country without a solid infrastructure having to try to make those arrangements and have reliable connections to make all the "meetings" happen.

I know professors would alter their curricula to account for that, but still. Wow. [/quote]

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