Rumors going around that they will be laying off all the Gen Ed instructors and take ALL those classes online.
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Not at AiPH. We have a union contract that prevents enrollment in online classes from taking a class from a faculty member. If enough students enroll in on online class and a faculty member can teach said class, the class runs.
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Great idea if you’re not a student.
DCEH has a plan to reduce student cost, be unified across all campuses and become one school, on a semester system. Having one system provide GE, and doing it online with adjuncts at $2k a class, no building overhead (except for a server room and IT), no benefits, no faculty technology expense (full time faculty are provided with laptops), is a cost effective approach.
Defending online education for an undergraduate degree is sickening. I worked at an AI school and saw so many students that were barely high school grad quality. They couldn’t write a complete sentence. All of the online graduates that I saw were barely senior high school level. Bottom line. Go to a trade school before wasting 80k on a worthless bachelor level degree. Online does not work on an undergrad level.... at least not at the AI schools.
YouTube is free.... or I can torrent any topic. Why pay a dime for knowledge. I live on a ball.... in space.
Makes sense, most traditional colleges and universities have gone to online offerings of most courses, especially general ed courses and basic courses within a major. Many reputable universities have fully online programs now, at a reasonable cost, which makes the Ai and AU models unnecessary and dispensable. (compare Ai or AU to a state college with a solid reputation, about 4:1 tuition)
PS Properly designed online education based on a quality curriculum that includes pertinent information and a solid assessment model is the future, it can work beautifully. Ai and AU hire faculty who’ve never worked at a respected school to create courses, they need to farm it out to scholars and instructional education professionals.
Online class dont work.
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Do you think I'm a scared little weasel for accepting peanuts from a failing quasi Christian educational scam that will shunt students online so I can phone it in and eat onion dip out of my navel? And by the way no one graduates from.
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I think under 15 will be considered too small to be on campus. (and they still take away pay per student if the class is small)
What’s considered a small class?
Not a rumor. All gen ed moving to online, not sure of date since they said both Winter 18 and then said all small classes have to move to online only this summer.