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In my opinion it would be crazy to pay $50k of tuition for a few zoom lectures per week, and I think a lot of colleges are aware of this. In response, many of t
by mjfl 6y ago
In my opinion it would be crazy to pay $50k of tuition for a few zoom lectures per week, and I think a lot of colleges are aware of this. In response, many of them seem to be doing a "hybrid" approach, where undergrads are allowed to come on campus, but all instruction will be online (Harvard for example). This seems to defeat the purpose of not having in person classes in the first place. I think it shows how much of a pickle they are in.
- creaghpatr 6y agoSafer for the professors though.
- Avicebron 6y agoSafer in a health sense, but I fear once Academia realizes that lectures can be recorded and supplemented with some office hours for questions. The life of an academic will become tenuous..teaching in real time over Zoom is only a short order of magnitude above a well structured pre-recorded lecture series. At least in my experience.
- vkou 6y agoUniversities have figured this out a long time ago, and have been cutting all sorts of corners in instruction (Despite the growth in tuition.) The life of an academic is tenuous already, and a lot of instruction is done by poorly-paid, untenured sessionals. Tenured positions are in 2020, rare as hen's teeth.