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Lecturers NOT emailing back

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  • #32
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,322 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    RoddyUsher wrote: »
    I'm afraid that is not how third level teachers are trained or understand their job. We are involved in adult education where the student has a high level of autonomy and responsibility for their own work. Much information is provided but the expectation, and the design of the system, requires learners to do a lot of independent work beyond what is taught in lectures, tutorials, demonstrations etc. It has always been this way and in most countries continues to operate this way. Some of the frustration going on here is about the failure of students to grasp this fact and essentially go and explore and read material in a grown up way. A bit more of this might lessen the level of "venting" going on here.

    While this may be the assumption there are situations that occur whereby the student MUST interact with the lecturer to get either more information or have a query which is not answered elsewhere answered. That is a lot different from "independent learning and autonomy".
    If adults are expected to have a high level of autonomy and responsibility one could ask why have the lecturer at all? Give the student the materials........the slides.......let them sit the exams- cut out the middle man altogether.


  • #33
    alejandro1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭alejandro1977


    StrawberryJazz wrote: »
    I need advice.

    I've heard this is rampant all over campus but I've emailed two different lecturers about pretty important things (exam and assignments) and they haven't gotten back to me at all. Both of these lecturers have emailed the class before so I know they are not technically challenged.

    What to do? Its really important but I don't want to annoy them. Time is ticking. I'd see them in person but one lecturer finished our module last semester and the other one you need an appointment to go see, but she wont answer my email to make one ...ergo...awkward! :mad:Its also a sticky enough subject so she probably will not entertain talking to me at the end of a lecture.

    What does one do?!?

    Pick up the telephone?

    A friend of mine is a lecturer. He's sick of students emailing him over trivial matters, especially when the course material/ exam schedule / lab schedule has already been explained.

    If it's about the scheduling of a lab/exam the school/department secretary should know the answer. If you're too embarrassed to contact the secretary because it seems trivial then it probably is.

    P.S. The standard of punctuation (never mind logic and manners) on this thread is appalling. For a TCD forum I would expect better.

    P.P.S. OP: your use of (or lack thereof) the first person singular in your last sentence leaves a lot to be desired. Hint : incorrect use of "one" leaves you looking pretentious as well as silly...


  • #34
    StrawberryJazz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 194 ✭✭StrawberryJazz


    alejandro1977 wrote: »
    Pick up the telephone?

    A friend of mine is a lecturer. He's sick of students emailing him over trivial matters, especially when the course material/ exam schedule / lab schedule has already been explained.

    P.P.S. OP: your use of (or lack thereof) the first person singular in your last sentence leaves a lot to be desired. Hint : incorrect use of "one" leaves you looking pretentious as well as silly...

    With all due respect alejandro1977, one can f*ck off. . .

    Thank you to everyone for your help. Not to get too much into it, but the matter in question is regarding a grade given on a continuous assessment test, the nature of which is a tricky topic. If she hasn't emailed me back its because she doesn't want to deal with the logistics of being wrong. Its not trivial at all.

    I'd rather not get my tutor or appeals involved because it may look like I am trying to undermine her and in fairness, I don't want to embarrass her.


  • #35
    alejandro1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭alejandro1977


    StrawberryJazz wrote: »
    With all due respect alejandro1977, one can f*ck off. . .

    Thank you to everyone for your help. Not to get too much into it, but the matter in question is regarding a grade given on a continuous assessment test, the nature of which is a tricky topic. If she hasn't emailed me back its because she doesn't want to deal with the logistics of being wrong. Its not trivial at all.
    With that level of wit I'm not surprised you're appealing your grade.

    Put it in writing if you feel seriously wronged. Otherwise suck it up. And I don't mean Monica Lewinsky style. Though that might be the only way the lecturer will bother to pay attention to a juvenile undergraduate like you.
    I'd rather not get my tutor or appeals involved because it may look like I am trying to undermine her and in fairness, I don't want to embarrass her.

    You are trying to undermine her. You are embarrassing yourself (in fairness).


  • #36
    investment
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭investment


    Denerick wrote: »
    Actually I'm merely trolling.


    :eek: You should be banned so, that's illegal around here

    where are the mods when you need them?


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  • #37
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,485 ✭✭✭Denerick


    investment wrote: »
    :eek: You such be banned so, that's illegal around here or trinity

    where are the mods when you need them?

    Give me a troll over a halfwit any day.


  • #38
    ApeXaviour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,523 ✭✭✭ApeXaviour


    Infraction for Denerick.

    Closing this thread too.


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