I can't make it to class today because I am at the car dealership and getting my oil changed because everyone and they baby mommas in Tampa Palms thought that it would be a good day to get their oil changed at 1:00pm today. Yes, I have been here since 1:00 but that's besides the point because I had enough time to think about something. I could actually show up to class if I face timed someone because technically I would be there virtually. (Heh, a tech blogger wants to go to class virtually)
But yeah, wouldn't that be cool if maybe class was interactive like that in the near future? I get we have online classes but with the luxury of having a camera and video chat access on nearly everything, it could actually become plausible one day.
What do you think?! Talk to me because I know you guys have computers in front of you!
Kels
There are plenty of online classes. I even teach a graduate course fully online in the Patel College of Global Sustainability. USF is moving more and more to online teaching, including writing classes. There are some advantages for students like access and flexibility, but also some problems, like isolation. For faculty, it is a similar mixed bag: no more students who are in class in name only, but also an endless stream of emails and gmails and chats and electronic contacts all day every day. It is more work to teach an online class really well than a face to face class. And there is so much less flexibility in online teaching; teachers can;t respond to students and class movement when it all has to be scripted months before the course begins.But god, bad or indifferent, it is here to stay and will become ever more present in your college experience.
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