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MADem

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3. What horseshit. Put more classes online. Lots of classes don't need teachers overseeing the

Reply to Addison (Original post)

Mon May 20, 2013, 08:16 PM

May 2013

learning on a constant basis. Plenty of basic shit is pure memorization. Automate online classes where possible, use graduate student teaching assistants to oversee the basic classes and hire more teachers for the 'in demand' classes.

Making people wait longer, or charging them more, is wrong.

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Should Wealthier Students Get to Jump the Line For College Classes? [View all] Addison May 2013 OP

No on point May 2013 #1

No. Starry Messenger May 2013 #2

What horseshit. Put more classes online. Lots of classes don't need teachers overseeing the MADem May 2013 #3

it's community college. they don't have graduate teaching assistants. and the in-demand HiPointDem May 2013 #5

Get the teaching assistants from the larger schools--an online course can originate from anywhere. MADem May 2013 #6

the high demand courses aren't the basic classes. and the teaching assistants from 4 HiPointDem May 2013 #7

Yeah, but everybody has to take basic classes, and if you can shift your teaching dollars MADem May 2013 #8

wealthy people don't go to community colleges. pushing more 'basic' courses to online just HiPointDem May 2013 #9

Oh yes they do! MADem May 2013 #10

no, you're accepting the frame of 'financial crisis'. once you do so, the only 'solution' is cost- HiPointDem May 2013 #11

As opposed to your solution...which is....? MADem May 2013 #12

the only real, pragmatic one, & the only one that ever works. HiPointDem May 2013 #13

Well, that wasn't terribly elucidative. MADem May 2013 #14

no. HiPointDem May 2013 #4

not just no, gejohnston May 2013 #15