Already too warm but a lovely morning. I think I’ll write in a bit 🙂
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Only four students? I would have thought that the class would have been automatically canceled with that few.
Summer session, and the only real resources the University is expending is the Blackboard support. The University told Dr. Lowell that below a certain amount, he’d get pro-rated for the smaller number – so for them, as long as he’s willing to do it, they’re still getting paid *something* for not a lot of work.
In May I was given a choice to teach it on a per-capita basis, or cancel it.
Since I had already committed to helping one student finish an incomplete, it seemed to make more sense to try to do that with the small class. Certainly easier than designing and executing a whole new class that just one person would take.
If it hadn’t been for that incomplete, I’d have opted for “no thanks.”
Technology has lead to moral decay? Whaaa?
I very much liked your response to that. I may borrow the apples and oranges thing 🙂
I seem to be ending up in these conversations a lot lately. Some folks seem to think that if something has changed from what they grew up with it must be wrong. ‘It just isn’t natural’ , ‘society has become corrupted’ etc etc etc 🙁
I’ve been trying my best to approach these conversations from a polite and respectful point of view but more often than not, find myself talking to a brick wall. I’m often amused that what is ‘right’ and ‘proper’ and ‘how it should be’ seems to be the late-teen to mid 30’s years of whoever I’m talking to. As if, by pure coincidence, things were finally as they should have been when this person was 25 and then after that it all went downhill… sigh.
Sorry to hear the class is so small, sounds like it’s really unworkable now.
Re: Technology has lead to moral decay –
Moral decay? No. Physical decay? Probably. 😉