Because online classes are designed with the same and often more labor that face-to-face courses are. There are bad online classes just like there are bad face-to-face classes. The format isn& #39;t the problem. https://twitter.com/Austin_Maguire/status/1283090275380989953">https://twitter.com/Austin_Ma...

Should you be paying fees for facilities you don& #39;t get to use? No. But your tuition dollars go to pay for classes. You& #39;re still taking classes. Instructors are still designing and facilitating those classes.

If instructors are doing a bad job (i.e. not communicating, poorly designing activities, etc.) teaching online, I guarantee they& #39;re instructors that would do a bad job face-to-face too.

I understand students& #39; frustration and tbh this kind of question is because institutions are doing a TERRIBLE job communicating the why and how of online instruction. And they have been for a long time.

But if you& #39;re a faculty member who holds this view, you& #39;re consciously and directly devaluing the work your online colleagues do. You& #39;re saying the teaching we do is less than.

It isn& #39;t.