| Comment | Glasgow uni is telling students (some, anyway) to expect to be in-person teaching next semester (i.e. January onwards) but the reality is: no hope.
The worry is that everything we think we know about 'good' online distance learning, we learned from folk who wanted to do it in the first place.
The university has been its classic mode of saying nice, lovey dovey things in public and then flat-out 'where's my shit' at the managerial level as though nothing's changed.
I was lucky enough to have done my lecturer training course on ODL, but the impression I get is that a lot of academics don't *really* have the time or inclination to study best practice and how you can make ODL good for students, and that's largely down to the uni giving them too many responsibilities. Transferring content from in-person to ODL is a *lot* of work, and a lot of academics do not get that and/or were blazé. |
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