Posted on 04/13/2020 7:33:30 PM PDT by MNDude
I know that many students around the world are taking classes online at home. However, I'm curious what is going to happen to the millions of students that are engaged in classes that require Hands-On. For example, mechanics, surgeons, etc.
Will they be required to retake a class from the beginning in autumn? What about the incoming class? There will not be enough room for both an incoming class as well as are returning class for most of these.
Does anyone know a student like this, and what are they saying the plan will be?
They might have to get jobs.
SORRY! I was channelling Steven King again....
They should still get some of their tuition back and they lose the opportunity to polish their skills a little. It’s a Hugh hiccup for the young students.
Parents who are home need to step up.
Day and then evening shifts in the labs.
My brother is a high school teacher. He’s really stressing over this. He teaches CAD design. The semester long project was due about two weeks after the schools closed. He has no real idea where in the project individual students are. The assignment is in school computers and cannot be accessed.
He’s not sure how to grade them
Gilbert Chemistry Set?
Once students find that they can get an excellent education in lecture courses offered on-line, it will be the death knell for many middle-rank and lower institutions, and hopefully will put a damper on the twice-inflation-rate cost increases at the well-known schools.
Up to this point, hands-on experiences (lab courses, practicals, engineering project courses and the like) helped minimize the competition of on-line outfits, as those exercises require in-person activity. This term many prestigious schools have moved everything on-line, and are putting off actual hands-on lab courses for future terms. That doesn’t eliminate, but it does help moderate the disadvantage of remote-learning institutions - all they need do is come up with some occasional on-site experiences, and they’re in business.
Right now, if you want to take just about any course that MIT offers you can do so on-line. For free. In the future, potential students will more and more see that universities are largely turning into credentialling services. If you can get into an Ivy League school, you can graduate from one. Whether you learn anything there is another story. But, like the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, you can get a piece of paper at the end of four years that says you’re special.
Some will graduate. Some won’t. Some will seek degrees where they have a good shot at a job. Many will not.
Some will graduate with commendable GPA’s and be sought after. Many will not. Same stuff, different year.
The Wuhan Virus will make it more challenging but, the equation remains the same. Some creative scheduling will be needed and it will upset the Snowflakes. The rest will simply adapt and deal with it.
As long as there are college girls to party with then there will by guys showing up to college.
Ha! Might work for Intro Chemistry, an interesting idea.
Most will not open in the fall
Right.
With another 6 million newly employed projected of Thursday and filthy H1B Indians and Communist Chinese dominating the STEM fields, do what?
Send the foreign trash home and yes, college students and graduates can find work.
I have 25 years in the industry and can’t buy a job as I don’t speak Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil or Mandarin and I bathe 2x a day.
This does not work for nursing students as well as other medical programs, that are required to have a minimum of clinical hours to graduate.
They are not allowed in the hospital because the schools do not want to be liable for them coming down with the virus and the hospitals do not want unnecessary exposure to patients that may or may not have the virus.
Nursing students need to experience various settings such as ER, OR, recovery, Heart cath lab, GI lab, ICU, CCU, etc. Then there is the semester that is learning pediatrics, and OB-Gyn. Oh yes, we would definitely want a student that doesn’t have a temp assist in the L & D room or post-partum care but could have the virus, or how about on a peds wing. Then there are the rotations at the nursing homes.
It can work with nursing for the book learning of the degree. Yes, there still needs to be a practicum. That’s unavoidable.
I’m not in any way suggesting cutting the quality of the degree. There was no impetus before in seeing how to make education more efficient and now there is.
Nice. That answers or helps in what way? None.
College student has less of a chance to get a job now.
Some of you people are really morons.
Nice. Thanks for screwing some of us over.
OMG.
Eh, I guess too many on this site are low IQ morons.
And we wonder why we lose.
But but, they are stupid. Or something. Yeah yeah, whatever.
Wow. This thread really identifies the issue and how stupid some of our so called posters, who think they are so smart, are.
And we wonder why we lose.
Some of you really are too stupid.
My kid was just about to enter the clinicals portion of nursing program right as the lock down happened. She’s doing assigned work online while having a 10 and 4 year old at home and I’m not able to help out due to work (essential job) which also makes me unable to even visit (for fear of catching CV at said job and passing it on to one of em’) I feel bad for her because she had many hurdles to overcome and still stuck with it, passed the exam, got accepted, became overwhelmed by the work load involved and time commitment,
but soldiered on. Was looking forward to L&D rotation. Now this pandemic surfaces.
Hard times for many.
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