How would you calculate the reduction in value of lectures if given online?
I'd argue the value of the lectures is about the same for large classes, it's the ability to ask questions or students ability to focus that gets harder online.
I'd argue the value of the lectures is about the same for large classes, it's the ability to ask questions or students ability to focus that gets harder online.
This product if worth X amount for you, but I can only build it for 2X
An online course that an average professor puts together will be much worse than what is already available on Coursera.
This is what scares the administration, they know cannot compete with that, and bigger things are at stake, like the future of the entire institution.
If anything, a lot of the cost of a college tuition these days isn't in the pay for the instructors anyway. It's in the campus, the labs, the sports, the social life/club funding and the like.
It seems like you are missing the point, if the student is not coming the professor can't get paid either. Do you thing GT will just print more money?
I'm not sure what will end up happening, or if it will be fair to either party here. And obviously, if students drop out over this, then that will cause financial issues all over, but that doesn't seem like what's happening. Students are still enrolled and interested in taking classes where possible. On the other end, telling non-tenured professors that they now have to teach entirely online for less money is an easy way for them to go find a different job, which isn't good for GT either.
It will in a way work out, all I am saying that I don't think these petitioners ever thought about it, or considered that.