Read on Twitter
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
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's not working for us.
They'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'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'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.
