Unscientific poll *and* small sample, but the results match my experience. I thought attendance would be at least as good as it was on campus. Engagement might suffer, but attendance requires only that students turn on their computers and click on a couple of links. But no. https://twitter.com/moebius_strip/status/1247912135981584389">https://twitter.com/moebius_s...

If this experiment in emergency online learning was going to work for anyone, it would work for a class like mine: faculty and adult students in a computer systems department at a literal institute of technology, with all the support that implies. And it& #39;s not working for us.

They& #39;re handing in work; they have not written off my course. But attendance is crap & students are falling behind. Some students have other responsibilities but many have confessed that without a campus routine, they& #39;re sleeping in & lacking the external motivation they need.

And these are students who were doing just fine throughout the on-campus part of the term. They& #39;re not entitled lazy bums. But they are really seeing how much of their success they owed to the structure that campus life imposed on them.

So I look at *this* - the *ideal* scenario - and I literally cannot fathom how this cobbled-together online learning is supposed to work for, eg, young children.