I cannot help but think that the nature of the hand-wringing for an all-online semester really exposes the degree to which colleges have badly marketed and people misunderstand what is paid for. You are paying for access to dozens, if not hundreds, of world-class field-experts.
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That access is, I will admit, somewhat attenuated in an online setting-you have to work a little harder to get to it. But it hasn't changed. I tell my students: if your college education could have been replaced by a series of youtube videos, you did not get your money's worth.
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As a student, if you want to get your money's worth - talk to professors, go to office hours, develop relationships with the ones in your field. Use that access to expertise - you are not likely to *ever* have such access again. You can still do all that online.
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And because in practice most students are just paying for the credential, so the actual education doesn't matter overly much. If you want to learn history to a middle-of-undergrad level, you can read Wikipedia and hang out on some history subreddits, and do fine with discipline.
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what good is expert access as an undergrad? This is just a more nerdy ideal of the "college experience" sales pitch. College now is about paying for credentials. Nobody is going to put themselves in debt for "access" and my online courses had tests made by the textbook makers.
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Those are poor online courses, but I hesitate to blame the instructors; many online courses are done by underpaid and overworked adjuncts. I'm not sure what to say to the assumption that there is no value in mulling over big ideas and important theories with great minds.
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What of field work, lab work, in-person group collaboration and seminars? Schools are charging full tuition because they believe the market will bear it.
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Not really? These are mostly not-for-profit institutions. They are charging full tuition because the emergency shift to online instruction doesn't lower the university's costs at all. Professors, admin, maint., IT, grounds, library - all need to get paid. Buildings upkept.
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Hold on. You’re supposed to pay for that fruit?
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If the quality of education the same or worse when offered online? If the same, they should have been online all this time, because there are other benefits to doing so. If not the same, students shouldn't be paying the same amount for it.
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