tEducated | Tech in education | Scoop.it Matt says: August 10, 2012 at 7:02 pm As an online instructor, let me open up another side to the first problem above. I do everything to open up my class to students. I respond to email within 24 hours. Yet I am told I am too slow to respond to an email that was sent at 2am. I let students turn in rough drafts of projects so that I can give them free feedback and help them to get better grades. Less than 2% of the students will send anything in early at all. Then I am told I don’t do enough to help. I have a Meebo chat widget open 15 hours a day most days – Only 2 students in 5 semesters have ever used it. Then I am told I am not available enough. What I do get is a mountain of excuses why students need to be let off the hook, not do the work, copy from Wikipedia, you name it. Students completely ignore instructions and then complain that I am “giving” them a bad grade when they lose points due to the fact that they left out a major component. And also didn’t send it in for free feedback. Usually there is no communication, feedback, or support because the student just wants to show up in the last week, turn in some paper they copied off the web, and get an A. When you don’t let them do that, they start complaining about how there is no communication, feedback, or support from the instructor. We need to start looking at the REAL problem in these courses.
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