COVID hit us like a brick wall and we were all forced into On-Line. That which was a subpar product packaged for people who couldn’t pass GRE or get good grades but claimed to be “too busy with work”, now became mandatory.
And what did we learn?
It sucks. It sucks just as much as we thought if not more.
Learning difficult subjects is not easy. Learning difficult subjects requires all of our senses to form the memories. It requires an environment that sets us up for the learning we are about to embark on. We all tune in, we turn off our laptops (hopefully), we put away our phones (if we are serious) and we listen. After and before class we might ask a question of our peers and in class we ask questions of the professors. We smell the chalk or the marker fumes, we move our heads from the board to our notes, we think about the matter and we read things before and after. We feel the paper that we turn in and we feel the graded paper returned.
And what do we get in an online class? Nothing.
We “walk into the class” in our pijamas. We are on facebook the whole time. The professor rarely asks a question, and when they do, we are almost always on the toilet. We barely do the reading and we certainly don’t interact with other students.
What does this mean? It is a waste of time and money.
If you can study this way? Great! You just saved yourself gas money and money on courses. If you don’t need a network ever? You’re probably an idiot and will never rise up in an organization and this method is for you.
BUT. If you are serious about learning and applying what you learn, if you are serious about your future, if you are willing to invest in yourself, then for the love of god, avoid on-line and do in person.
I might be an old man saying this, or behind the times. But if I am, prove me wrong!
seven year degree 