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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to know how many of the complainers diligently sought help in his office hours. Their expectation that he make his lectures available by zoom is telling. As opposed to their attending class and taking meticulous notes? [/quote]

It's a huge lecture, not a small discussion class, right?  I mean this guy is putting up his videos on youtube so zoom isn't really telling of anything.[/quote]

A huge lecture class means they could have availed themselves of both professor and TA support in office hours. Would love to know if they made any effort to do so. What I hear from several college prof friends these days is that students are incredibly passive, unwilling to do the work / come to class prepared, and take little responsibility for their role in the learning process. But I can also believe they were not well-equipped for college due to pandemic learning losses. Both things can be true.[/quote]

Not only can both be true, but problems are functions of the pandemic, yet no one will acknowledge that. Do we really want a generation of students to drop out of college because administration and professors, most of whom demanded to teach remotely themselves, won't deviate from the norm to address widespread problems and shortcomings in preparation?[/quote]

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