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will online learning be totally culled come Sept/return to norm

  • 17-08-2021 12:16am
    #1
    JourneyMan8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭


    as a first year in college, I am Zoom fatigued but I also see the upside of it going forward. Having talked to previous graduates, essentially in the past if you miss a lecture, unless someone has sneakily recorded it, you have missed it and that's that, which just seems dumb. I've read a few conflicting things on College Zoom going forward in the media, but has anyone connected to any of these colleges etc and heard if there will be online lecturing still going forward as a staple of modern college? or even have opinions on it.

    Personally think they'll be missing a trick if they don't keep it.



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  • #2
    gauchesnell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 946 ✭✭✭gauchesnell


    yes most colleges and universities will be hybrid - mixture of in person and online learning. That is based on current health advice though and may change. It may stay for some programmes but probably not for FT UG programmes really.



  • #3
    JourneyMan8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭JourneyMan8


    yeah seems like they'll do away with it, plenty of upside to keeping it and with little to no hassle, chuck the zoom on and continue your in class lecture, defo get a lot of uptake in that and increase participation. although that might be their problem, to the unis/colleges that need to get bums in their owned accomodation, people would just stay at home and do college.


    I did find out that Students responded very kindly to Zoom in national student surveys, and a lot wished it would be kept in some capacity going forward, i hope a real conversation is had over it rather than the "lets get back to normal **** everything that reminds us of covid" carry on that will likely occur.



  • #4
    gauchesnell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 946 ✭✭✭gauchesnell


    staying at home though isnt an option for a lot of students though - personal situations and reliable wifi vary widely. As I said we are keeping it and depending on the college/university it would be kept in some form. Also we dont use Zoom :) As for hassle depends on what you mean - some lectures require more work for staff who would experience the same issues as students (home situations not ideal for online delivery/wonky wifi etc).

    Online learning can be a very positive for a lot of students and we didnt see any significant impact on drop out rates/failure rates due to it with some exceptions.



  • #5
    JourneyMan8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 162 ✭✭JourneyMan8


    ah yeah i never meant teachers would stay at home, it would always be the "extra" on the side. in class lectures would be priority one, just a student could still join in from him if for example they were ill or having money issues.


    I can actually say for my course, zoom probably had a massive impact on drop out rates unfortunately, but it is a high dropout course anyway so who knows. I wonder if online learning could impact positively drop out rates when back to normal, im sure if used right as an "extra" it would have big benefits. the modern student is glued to screens so they are so used to being able to pause and rewind etc, having that ability with our online learning was a massive plus. anyway lets see.



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