Two students who went to the same university 30 years apart share their radically different experiences as lectures go online and face-to-face contact takes a back seat in the post-pandemic world.
I really hated the forced face to face time they wax nostalgic over in that article. Lectures that you had to attend in person and couldn’t easily access after they were done, tutorial sessions where part of your final grade was received just for turning up, creating tutorials full of people who didn’t want to be there and tutors trying to juggle so many people they couldn’t meaningfully tutor anyone, effectively making it an enforced private study session…
I really hated the forced face to face time they wax nostalgic over in that article. Lectures that you had to attend in person and couldn’t easily access after they were done, tutorial sessions where part of your final grade was received just for turning up, creating tutorials full of people who didn’t want to be there and tutors trying to juggle so many people they couldn’t meaningfully tutor anyone, effectively making it an enforced private study session…
I did not love my time at uni…