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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public university professor here. The hand wringing over this is pretty funny. There are indeed a lot more online courses than there were before COVID, because a lot of faculty tried online teaching for the first time and realized they liked it or it worked well for their schedule. We get a certain degree of autonomy when it comes to selecting our courses each semester. The department tries to balance online vs. in person offerings, but they don’t mandate that individual faculty teach in a particular format. If anything you may be getting the better, more experienced professor in the online section because professors often pick their courses first then they assign grad student instructors to the remaining sections. These sections tend to be in person at less desirable times.

I teach mostly in person with one online and one blended per year. I decide based on what format is best for the course and based on my own schedule. I have not spent one single second worrying about what parents would prefer. I will let administrators who get paid a lot more than me deal with you all![/quote]

Do you spend one single second worrying about what the students would prefer? Online classes were a nightmare for my kid. Any college that necessitated her taking an online class would be a dealbreaker—for HER, not for her parents. [/quote]

Online teaching takes a lot of skill and not everyone can do it well.  My kid did well with online but I would except online to be much cheaper.  [/quote]
PP you’re responding to. Agree, and also DD is dyslexic and dysgraphic. Teachers would ask kids to respond in the chat or would put info in the chat and DD could not read anything as it scrolled by, or respond quickly enough. She learns best through lecture and discussion, which doesn’t work well online. The spring of 2020 was terrible for her and we were really thankful to be in a small private school that was able to return in-person in September 2020. She hates snow days now because her school does online learning for them. A college that requires online classes will be a non-starter. [/quote]

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