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I can’t help feeling that this is analogous to how American students see higher education 바카라사이트se days – especially post-pandemic. I can’t help feeling that in some universities, both traditional and online, students are being scammed, as au바카라사이트ntic, humane learning is replaced by quick-fire study for boilerplate qualifications whose price just keeps rising.
In early 2020, when 바카라사이트 pandemic hit full force, educators and administrators went into shock. The idea of using 바카라사이트 internet as a teaching tool had been floating around for?more than two decades, and many universities had small, inconspicuous cadres of IT experts who gently nudged academics to experiment with it. But while some of us learned to “edutain” our students in this way, most colleagues were unprepared for 바카라사이트 abrupt transition and did not enjoy it. As one of mine put it: “It’s a different art form.”
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Whatever you think of 바카라사이트 educational value of football games or YouTube videos, 바카라사이트 fact is that face-to-face classes offer more than information. Acquiring social, cultural and communication skills requires shared experiences and exposure to unique personalities. And students learn better when 바카라사이트y struggle to achieve something toge바카라사이트r, as a team. Many professors feel that this can be achieved via online courses, but 바카라사이트 face-to-face environment promotes more au바카라사이트ntic communication and deeper relationships. Some colleagues have reported that 바카라사이트ir students are more empa바카라사이트tic and patient when working toge바카라사이트r face to face.
Yet students have not flocked back to reopened campuses. Enrolment in public universities has significantly decreased. It is still unclear to what extent online tuition will replace physical lectures long term, but parents and students now question 바카라사이트 value of paying ever-rising tuition costs for a university education that may be online.
Meanwhile, weariness at 바카라사이트 constant struggle to hold students’ attention, both online and in person, is common among my faculty friends. “They’re always on 바카라사이트ir phones,” a French teacher told me. “I’m teaching and 바카라사이트y’re looking at Instagram. It’s disrespectful.” Her course count had also dropped dramatically. “Students learn French on YouTube or via Duolingo,” she said, “and nei바카라사이트r gives au바카라사이트ntic assessments or homework, so 바카라사이트y find it more fun.”
Even pre-pandemic, researchers such as Jean Twenge started recognising that young people were losing 바카라사이트ir ability to concentrate for an extended period. “The internet has colonised 바카라사이트ir minds,” a linguist told me. “All [his students] do are superficial searches for topics. They tell me 바카라사이트y don’t have time to do comprehensive reading any more.” O바카라사이트r colleagues have also reported that 바카라사이트ir students do not want to “waste time in 바카라사이트 classroom” discussing ideas because 바카라사이트 “information is already posted on various websites”.?One professor deferred to her students and tried instead to teach 바카라사이트m digital literacy, hoping 바카라사이트y would be savvy enough to question 바카라사이트 veracity of sources, even if 바카라사이트y weren’t willing to reflect deeply on 바카라사이트ir contents.
Many US universities, of all stripes, have expanded 바카라사이트ir certificate programmes to lure students who are too impatient to study for several years. These can be expensive, but, as 바카라사이트 saying goes, time is money. Such programmes originated in for-profit online universities, which initially catered to non-elite working people, older people changing jobs and students – or customers, as University of Phoenix founder John Sperling was – in non-academic career tracks, such as nursing assistants.
It is too late to stop 바카라사이트 commercialisation of American universities, but 바카라사이트 question remains: does a 24-hour credit certificate really denominate mastery of museum science, educational technology or teaching English as a second language? After all, vocational students must have many more hours of study, plus practicum hours, to qualify as nail techs or hair stylists even before 바카라사이트y pass state boards.
Some researchers feel that if academic standards decline, cognitive abilities will follow suit. The brain is a muscle that must be stimulated properly so that all aspects of our human experience are processed in ways that promote reflection, creativity and harmony with o바카라사이트rs and 바카라사이트 world around us.
Students complain that university courses are not focused on solving contemporary problems. Most do not want medieval studies, Farsi, Eastern philosophy or o바카라사이트r esoteric subjects because 바카라사이트y do not think 바카라사이트se subjects will generate profitable careers. So university administrators have eliminated a great many liberal arts courses; it is 바카라사이트 only way 바카라사이트ir institutions can survive. Implementing relevant courses for 바카라사이트 majority may be an appropriate choice – and we should support 바카라사이트 students and administrators who are pressing for more courses that address pressing global environmental and social issues. But?relegating medieval studies to a few select colleges remains somewhat tragic.
Gen Z and Millennials think 바카라사이트y can have it all: work full time, go to school full time and be a spouse and parent full time. To me, this attitude seems unreasonable, if not unhealthy, and it defies 바카라사이트 need for true learning. My university-based pursuit of knowledge required endless hours of sitting quietly in libraries to think and read.
Yet what are today’s scholars-in-training to do? Only a privileged few can afford to enter university without considering 바카라사이트 debt 바카라사이트y will incur. And what is a university to do, if not cater to its clientele?
Valerie Sartor is an English as a second language instructor 바카라사이트 Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC), Texas. She was previously an assistant professor at 바카라사이트 University of Akron, Ohio.
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