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This is new to me. Interesting. If the teachers don't grade anymore, what they are doing with all the free time ?

• avmich 6y ago
  Driving Uber. Teaching is a labor of love, it doesn't pay. /s And in the mean time prepare plans for lessons, answer questions, bringing resources for students use - they never were mostly or exclusively occupied by grading.
  • olliej 6y ago
    They’re not bringing resources - the classes are online. I haven’t encountered this platform before, but most textbooks now come with class plans for teachers (especially at university where they are used to kill off second hand book sales)
    • avmich 6y ago
      > They’re not bringing resources - the classes are online. I mean, digital resources, bringing them ready to be used in class. Files have to be found, or better created from others by cutting and coupling, they have to be named, put in correct place for accessing. Even though the material sometimes doesn't change much form a year to another, it needs to be checked and adjusted for current class trajectory. Teaching is a hard intellectual work. Good teaching, that is.
    • unishark 6y ago
      Online classes aren't generally considered any easier to teach. And preparing them in the first place is often completely left to the teacher, who's entire workflow just got thrown out the window. And the materials provided with the textbook often suck, and require more work to use than creating your own from scratch.
• unishark 6y ago
  They are still probably holding class meetings online. And the effort of converting everything to online in the first place can be pretty overwhelming.