[AP] Unimpressed by Online Classes, College Students Demand Refunds

I'm doing an online school right now and yeah it is not the same. Entirely self-taught just using books and videos from LinkedIn Learning.

But:

1) This was always an online school and I knew what I was getting into when I signed up;
2) I'm not 18-22; I'm 33 and want to just do the course material and get the damn degree. I don't need or want the "social" aspect of it.

 

Throughout my life, I attended three universities and one community college. In only about 10% of my lecture classes were there any low-level personal interaction between the professors and students. The mass amount of teaching came through the professor regurgitating textbooks (usually their own) and myself alone and/or groups of other students working together as a team to piece the material together and learn it. Sounds like nothing has changed and I'm actually surprised at the uproar.

If it's the social aspect they're missing...go create an account on christianmingle.com and have at it. Jeesh.

Now my lab classes were always awesome. Lot's of low-level interaction between professors and/or teaching assistants.

Additionally...my daughter is graduating high school next month. She's wanting to go off to school...but if the environment is shaping up the way it looks, we may do the year or semester skip.

 

I'm teaching myself physics and all the parts of the body in 4 weeks. It's crazy stupid hard but yo boi getting 100s cause it's open book.

 

U.S. universities quickly getting up there with some of the most reviled institutions.

 

I'm glad there's an uproar. The price point on education doesn't make sense. It's not consumer friendly and needs disruption.

 

I lacked respect for online classes before this
Mainly core classes. . .they are useless and wastes of time and money
Practical classes lack interaction sucks. . .you cannot do welding online
Even instruction on how to use programs like Premiere Pro or some other specific programs
fall short . .. because generally you using the book more than the prof

Classes that require more explaination are harder because there is no immediate conversation
Emails are like hours between responses kind of shut down communications

USer of Zooms and conference calls helps but only in small classe
30 people on a zoom is batshit crazy unless the Prof has a firm grasp of how to control the meeting

it really is not the same.
Social interaction does NOT happen in the class room
it is before and after class. . . . . if you kid goes to college
The future maybe zoom classes while in the cafeteria or library of some location
then leave and meetup with friends after


Rocket River

 

Having an environment of young people getting together at the start of their lives is a great catalyst for personal development. You can do nothing but socialize and slowly understand how networking works. Or you can compete with others for a few spots, learn how to work together while secretly stab each other behind the back. Diversity quotas help our social progress by forcing kids who never mingled before for the first time and possibly understanding their perceived differences a bit more.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's pretty much half of what people learn from their expensive MBAs.

These kids should rightfully demand a discount. There's plenty of free material w/ semi-supervised course work for people to learn adequately.
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/

 

Hey guys, I took a 3 hour course and now I are programmer. HELLO WORLD! Where's my 6 figures?!