I know St Andrews is in Scotland so their guidance is from the Scottish government, but they’ve cancelled their plans to have more in-person teaching. I’m half way through my 2nd year here and I’ve never had an in-person lecture. The maximum amount of in-person teaching I’ve had so far is two 60 minute (but really more like 50 minutes) tutorials a week.
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I know not everyone cares about in-person lectures, but online lectures do have some limitations that I feel is impacting our learning.
Maybe the Education Secretary should take up teaching.
Apart from if teachers have to self-isolate with covid and there is nobody to fill in. Makes sense that they should do online teaching if they have mild symptoms at home and feel up to it.
If universities want to utilise distance learning reduce the cost of the course for the duration of non face to face tuition.
It’s fine if universities want students to learn via distance learning, but then students should be paying distance learning tuition fees instead of in-person tuition fees.
We do both, we have half the cohort in person, and the other half watching the lecture live. We then rotate every week.
I actually like being online for lectures more than being in person.
For stuff like tutorials and meetings you can’t beat being there in person, but lectures you get pretty much exactly the same experience – only you don’t need to get up at 7am and haul yourself to uni anymore.
Amazing that universities need to be reminded to do the thing that’s their reason to exist.
Then do something about it. That’s literally your job.
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I know St Andrews is in Scotland so their guidance is from the Scottish government, but they’ve cancelled their plans to have more in-person teaching. I’m half way through my 2nd year here and I’ve never had an in-person lecture. The maximum amount of in-person teaching I’ve had so far is two 60 minute (but really more like 50 minutes) tutorials a week.
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I know not everyone cares about in-person lectures, but online lectures do have some limitations that I feel is impacting our learning.
Maybe the Education Secretary should take up teaching.
Apart from if teachers have to self-isolate with covid and there is nobody to fill in. Makes sense that they should do online teaching if they have mild symptoms at home and feel up to it.
If universities want to utilise distance learning reduce the cost of the course for the duration of non face to face tuition.
It’s fine if universities want students to learn via distance learning, but then students should be paying distance learning tuition fees instead of in-person tuition fees.
We do both, we have half the cohort in person, and the other half watching the lecture live. We then rotate every week.
I actually like being online for lectures more than being in person.
For stuff like tutorials and meetings you can’t beat being there in person, but lectures you get pretty much exactly the same experience – only you don’t need to get up at 7am and haul yourself to uni anymore.
Amazing that universities need to be reminded to do the thing that’s their reason to exist.
Then do something about it. That’s literally your job.