It wouldn’t work if you want to be taught be anyone thats educated in the topic. I work in a business school. Our expenses don’t come from books or buildings, it’s faculty. 80% of our budget is teaching salaries. We have low tuition too and make a small profit. Online schools still need to be taught by someone and those people want to be paid. Unless you’re okay teaching yourself.
Sure, but that’s largely teaching yourself. You never get to ask questions during a lecture. If you don’t understand something, you can’t clarify immediately. Online courses are not good for actual learning for the majority of people. I know this from personal experience and from student reviews the last year.
Plus you still need to pay someone to answer questions for small amounts of time. Do you want that person to be a cashier at Whole Foods or someone with a PhD in the subject?
I wish I had someone, anyone, to ask questions about DE. I'm not learning anything. I'm going to fail this class because I can't get any elaboration, every question is "refer to past lecture"
Exactly. We have told all our faculty to always be available for questions but it’s near impossible to keep track of their response times. Overall, online school is not viable for everyone to do nor should it be. This is from a teaching and learning perspective.
Our best received online courses have been taught to older people who are working and understand what they want out of the programs. That is not the case for the absolute majority of undergrad students.
Depending on the subject you could get away with automated exams and grading it just depends on certifications and what they want. There is the potential for unlimited options between free open recorded coursework and full phd-graded assignments and consultations. The only constraint is accreditation and how much the student wants to spend. I think for example one person could be disciplined and smart enough to learn to be effective in a field from lecture videos, while another may want a more expensive approach
One, students cheat. You keep the same question bank year after year and those answers will soon be online. Rewriting questions cost money and educated people to rewrite them. Then you may need to change the course content to match the questions being asked, which again is another cost.
Two, lower course numbers (101, 201) are designed for students who are new to topics and need to be able to ask questions if they have them. If the basics of a topic are not understood, you can’t expect them to succeed in higher level courses.
Three, the ability to get free education is already available to anyone who wants it. You can go teach yourself physics if you’re motivated enough to. But does that mean you’ll get a job as a physicist? Who knows, maybe. Someone test it out and find out for us.
It wouldn’t work if you want to be taught be anyone thats educated in the topic. I work in a business school. Our expenses don’t come from books or buildings, it’s faculty. 80% of our budget is teaching salaries. We have low tuition too and make a small profit. Online schools still need to be taught by someone and those people want to be paid. Unless you’re okay teaching yourself.
Record lesson once. Replay 1 million times. Have Q&A sessions separately for small amounts of time for those interested.
Sure, but that’s largely teaching yourself. You never get to ask questions during a lecture. If you don’t understand something, you can’t clarify immediately. Online courses are not good for actual learning for the majority of people. I know this from personal experience and from student reviews the last year.
Plus you still need to pay someone to answer questions for small amounts of time. Do you want that person to be a cashier at Whole Foods or someone with a PhD in the subject?
I wish I had someone, anyone, to ask questions about DE. I'm not learning anything. I'm going to fail this class because I can't get any elaboration, every question is "refer to past lecture"
Exactly. We have told all our faculty to always be available for questions but it’s near impossible to keep track of their response times. Overall, online school is not viable for everyone to do nor should it be. This is from a teaching and learning perspective.
Our best received online courses have been taught to older people who are working and understand what they want out of the programs. That is not the case for the absolute majority of undergrad students.
Depending on the subject you could get away with automated exams and grading it just depends on certifications and what they want. There is the potential for unlimited options between free open recorded coursework and full phd-graded assignments and consultations. The only constraint is accreditation and how much the student wants to spend. I think for example one person could be disciplined and smart enough to learn to be effective in a field from lecture videos, while another may want a more expensive approach
Even the subject is hard.
One, students cheat. You keep the same question bank year after year and those answers will soon be online. Rewriting questions cost money and educated people to rewrite them. Then you may need to change the course content to match the questions being asked, which again is another cost.
Two, lower course numbers (101, 201) are designed for students who are new to topics and need to be able to ask questions if they have them. If the basics of a topic are not understood, you can’t expect them to succeed in higher level courses.
Three, the ability to get free education is already available to anyone who wants it. You can go teach yourself physics if you’re motivated enough to. But does that mean you’ll get a job as a physicist? Who knows, maybe. Someone test it out and find out for us.