I am behind in my LOTR podcast listening, but today's podcast of Morgoth's Ring started with Prof. Olsen, who a couple years ago established an on line College (Signum University), is discussing inequality of employees in universities, and how he is trying to make all employees on the same team.
he says earlier podcasts started with his discussion of marginalizing faculty by the administration?
Nope. Not my area of expertise. But if you are involved in higher education you might want to check out stuff on their site.
I only bring this up because my granddaughter in the USA is busy attending on line classes, with only a few regular classes at her college.
Will all on line classes be the way of the future?
probably not: Because a lot of learning is with questioning the teacher and with students discussing their subject with other students.
On the other hand, when I was in Medical school (nearly 50 years ago!), we tended to be busy, so one enterprising student started a class notes service: He would tape the lecture then have it typed out and duplicated for those who didn't want to attend classes.
So our Medical school yearbook had a photo labeled: A typical class: Showing an empty classroom with the lonely student with his large tape recorder being the only one in the class room.
Yup. the more things change the more they stay the same.
Again not my area of expertise: I am not a memorizer but learn by concepts and mind pictures. So I prefer to listen and take pithy notes of what I heard, which required me to translate the words into the concept.
On the other hand, my youngest did well with homeschool type modules that were used in his school: He knew that if he didn't master the module, he'd have to repeat it, so he actually paid attention to what he was working at. In regular classes, he'd get bored and start daydreaming and not learn anything at all.
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The reason I bring this up:
here, students are taking many of their classes on line with the help of their parents: our mayor has established a cheap internet wifi program, and our internet has been going on and off as they update the data connections with fiberoptic cables. There are also non internet ways to teach, using printed modules of the lessons. Sort of like what my son did in homeschool: You follow the module with your parents' help, and then email the teacher to get help...
here are some local videos about the new way of learning here in the Philippines, which is still in partial lockdown.
I should add that polls show Duterte's approval rating remains high: 90 percent approve of his handling of Covid and 80 percent approve of what he is doing to run the government.
But you can see the need is to reopen the cities, and this won't happen without a vaccine.
The WHO just decided to stop advising shutdown/quarantines because of the economic problems it is causing in much of the world.
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