"A new poll by Axios and College Reaction is showing just how students feel about online learning, which has now become the norm across the country because of the coronavirus pandemic.
A whopping 90 percent of students held negative views of online classes. More than three out of four students said “distance learning” is ‘worse or much worse’ than traditional in-person learning, and 13 percent of students said they would take gap time from higher education if online learning continues next year.
The same poll shows how students have been economically impacted by the virus. Nearly 40 percent of students who had previously obtained summer internships or post-graduation employment said they’ve now lost their jobs, and nearly another 40 percent said their job opportunities were moved to remote work or postponed." …
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/post/discussion/college-life
The problem is, in the current climate, there are a lot of job, intern or travel opportunities that justify time off. It is just the luck of the draw that this cohort of students and rising freshmen, have to deal with this.
In other news, water is wet.
(sorry!)
The College Reaction article (not the one quoted in post #0, apparently from a secondary source) and full results are here:
https://collegereaction.com/posts/most-student-jobs-have-been-canceled-delayed-or-digitized-by-coronavirus
https://www.scribd.com/document/456474196/College-Reaction-COVID-19-Report-2
For the question “How would you describe your experiences with virtual courses?”, the responses were:
3.34% Much better than in-person classes
10.25% Somewhat better than in-person classes
9.23% The same as in-person classes
49.34% Somewhat worse than in-person classes
27.83% Much worse than in-person classes
I bet professors would agree.
We are social creatures,…not meant to learn online for long periods of time in complete isolation. This is torture!
These aren’t online courses. They’re traditional courses that were adapted to an online environment in the space of a couple of weeks. That’s hardly a valid comparison to actual online courses which are thoroughly planned out well ahead of when they’re supposed to be taught.
Exactly this. I teach online classes. However, taking a face to face course and then be thrown into virtual online learning the last half the semester unexpectedly is NOT the same as an online course.