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This is a great policy. Ironically, it can also be used to justify "cheating"... but not in a bad way. If a university course is a requirement and I have no i
by thunky 2y ago
This is a great policy.
Ironically, it can also be used to justify "cheating"... but not in a bad way. If a university course is a requirement and I have no interest in learning the material, it makes sense for me to speedrun the material using all the tools I have at my disposal.
Maybe I'm missing out, but I'm an adult that's being "forced" to (pay to) take a class I have no interest/motivation for, which seems like being treated like an child.
I like your approach because you treat your students like adults.
- thesuitonym 2y agoThis speaks to a greater problem in the way we treat university in the US. It's not supposed to be a place where you're trained to do a job, it's supposed to be a community where you are exposed to new ideas, so you can become a more well-rounded individual. But then university is so expensive, and you need it to get a halfway decent job these days. So now you're paying tons of money for a class you didn't want to take in the first place, and you come in with a chip on your shoulder already. And then these classes typically have a very high workload, with extremely strict grading requirements (ESPECIALLY mathematics), and they end up becoming sort of a filter, which does a disservice to the students and to the instructors.
- ghaff 2y agoI don't know how unique those properties are to the US. Even if Unis are often cheaper elsewhere they still have a huge opportunity cost and it's not like credentialism doesn't exist outside the US.