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Right now many schools are having their students do work online due to the scare of the pandemic. Will people come to the realization that traditional classrooms are no longer needed? Can this ultimately result in a much needed cost savings in college expenses?
Teaching and learning has changed an awful lot over 30 years. For instance, when I was in school back in the 60s-70s, we had no computers. We typed on manual or electric typewriters. Things change.
I agree technology has improved quite a bit... but it hasn't been able to replace in person education and communication, yet. We are learning this first hand as we are forced to work from home. It's incredibly challenging.
Especially for working in teams. You often want to split it up and work on it individually. It's a horrible practice to get into.
I agree technology has improved quite a bit... but it hasn't been able to replace in person education and communication, yet. We are learning this first hand as we are forced to work from home. It's incredibly challenging.
Especially for working in teams. You often want to split it up and work on it individually. It's a horrible practice to get into.
Finding a better way to do things. That's what innovation is all about.
Right now many schools are having their students do work online due to the scare of the pandemic. Will people come to the realization that traditional classrooms are no longer needed? Can this ultimately result in a much needed cost savings in college expenses?
Are you operating under the assumption that all benefits from college can be achieved off-site via a computer?
Right now many schools are having their students do work online due to the scare of the pandemic. Will people come to the realization that traditional classrooms are no longer needed? Can this ultimately result in a much needed cost savings in college expenses?
I've seen the local data on this and for a highly motivated and above average student it can work well in some ways and some academic areas. And other areas like entry level college math, it ends up being a bloodbath with a 25-40% pass rate for the class.
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Wrong... Most of these parents CHOOSE to work, often to provide stuff their precious children don't need.... Cable TV, personal devices, huge empty houses, 3 car garage filled with AWD SUV (in warm climates)... Personal lessons in sports the kids will never pursue....
Funny how with so many of the two working parent households around here, it's to live in a two bedroom townhouse where the schools are a little better and you get far lower odds of evening gunshots. The cars in the driveway are 10+ years old. The smartphones are of the 'free with contract' variety and the monthly service cost is inflation-adjusted less than the phone plan with 5 hours of long distance calls from Ma Bell back in 1970.
If anything it's the wealthy here who are most likely to have a stay at home parent- it's become a status symbol to be able to afford a specific type of lifestyle with only one salary.
I did online class this weekend for the first time as my MBA program, which is usually in person, had to move virtual. We got by, but online, even with full video conferencing, is no substitute for in person learning.
It’s tough, and in my program (where professors taught full time in class as well as online) the consensus was that it required significantly more effort doing it virtually. And even more so asynchronously.
To do it right the program needs to be set up appropriately. You really can’t take an in-person class and just point a video camera at it. There needs to be a lot more supporting material built up before the course starts to compensate for the lack of interaction. Some courses (like accounting) are easier to do this way than say business ethics or strategic management.
Hopefully this ends soon - otherwise I also hope your program offers you a partial tuition credit back.
K-12 still need a teacher/babysitter there all day. College is a different matter. College admins won't allow a permanent shift to online classes. What, and automate themselves out of a career? Not gonna happen
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