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I am deeply, deeply worried about this. It's not a narrative supported by research, but who pays attention to to evidence or facts anymore. What we have witnessed is a failure of leadership, not of online. https://twitter.com/tressiemcphd/status/1279787786766372874
As I said before, online isn't broke. It works just fine. What's broke are bad leadership & planning that failed to plan for pandemics years ago when we recommended, refusal to invest because of implicit biases divorced from research, and deflection of that failure onto a medium.
To declare "online doesn't work" is more often a abject unwillingness for an institution to truly self reflect on their decisions and investments (or lack thereof). What doesn't work is bad planning and poor resourcing.
What you should be mad about paying is the high salaries
What you should be mad about paying is the high salaries
of decision makers who failed to plan.
But instead, we deflect onto a medium, which is illogical (that's a separate thread), because of a bundle of unchecked biases (largely about the students who take online).
But instead, we deflect onto a medium, which is illogical (that's a separate thread), because of a bundle of unchecked biases (largely about the students who take online).
