Students prefer online classes because they are less stressful. We are supposed to think this is a good thing but it is not. I have seen online and classroom teaching done by the same professor, for the same class, producing very different papers (not that I was allowed to grade them according to any real standards, but still I could see a difference). The kids want to be safely atomized in their bedrooms. Meanwhile, Stanford's bloated bureaucracy leads the way in erasing every sense of place, of community, of campus culture that a kid might want when they are leaving the nest to spread their wings.
Odd. At local Midwest university, students report that they are sick of zoom classes. Even students who initially asked for more online offerings now say they prefer in class. Further, news is full of reports of how k-12 year students suffered from online instruction during the pandemic. Does some magical alchemy change a young adults brain when they go off to college so that zoom is now effective?
Online instruction is beneficial for the teachers. Period.
Students prefer online classes because they are less stressful. We are supposed to think this is a good thing but it is not. I have seen online and classroom teaching done by the same professor, for the same class, producing very different papers (not that I was allowed to grade them according to any real standards, but still I could see a difference). The kids want to be safely atomized in their bedrooms. Meanwhile, Stanford's bloated bureaucracy leads the way in erasing every sense of place, of community, of campus culture that a kid might want when they are leaving the nest to spread their wings.
Odd. At local Midwest university, students report that they are sick of zoom classes. Even students who initially asked for more online offerings now say they prefer in class. Further, news is full of reports of how k-12 year students suffered from online instruction during the pandemic. Does some magical alchemy change a young adults brain when they go off to college so that zoom is now effective?
Online instruction is beneficial for the teachers. Period.