......and site/skill specific certs (that use state funding).
Diploma mill, anyone?
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The online classes are a joke, written by monkeys.
Students hate online classes as they learn nothing.
A sure way to fail is to be exclusively online.
mo--ns run this company... sad, it had such great potential.
Students will go elsewhere for a degree, they will not stand for this "nano" BS.
Amen!
Cheapened educational product?
This has been going on for many years, since online began. The AiO instructors were formerly known as facilitators. The classes have always been prepackaged lectures and assignments and assessment was done by a rubric. Anyone online who thinks they are teaching is really still only facilitating. There is a rule in the faculty handbook that you cannot change anything in a class. The AiO dean recently told all faculty that they cannot tell students the classes are “not (their) fault “ regardless of how poorly a class is written or how little sense an assignment makes “instructors must own the class.” Many assignments are poorly written and any teaching is simply explaining to students how to complete assignments or making instructional videos on how to use software, if the classes were better written that would not be necessary.
All instructors have to call all students to make sure they are in classs, call all students who have a C- or less, call all students who miss a due date. The dean has associate dean, department chairs and lead faculty micromanaging instructors monitoring all posts to make sure they include weekly videos to each student, have called students, and are posting grades within 48 hours of assignment due dates. As someone said on another thread, you never can have two consecutive days off and have to work many a holiday to keep up with the posts and grading in the online class.
It is a cheapened educational product from its inception this is nothing new.
Full time faculty make approximately 60% of the salary at a typical college and work more days per week. Adjuncts make about 33% compared to adjuncts at most colleges. Nonprofits, for profits, and private/religious schools have always been cheap with salaries (at least with private/religious schools you have some dignity and are respected in the education profession).
You learn fast