Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Why College Students Turned From Being Down on Remote Learning to Mostly in Favor of It - Robert Ubell, EdSurge

Today, 70 percent of college students give online and hybrid learning a thumbs-up. How did that happen? What were the forces at play that turned disaffection into growing acceptance It’s totally understandable that students taking remote classes in those early pandemic months resisted. Remote education was not a choice, but a command. Now, students were given the opportunity to compare. And they discovered that the often lackluster college classroom is not much better than what usually happens online. If everything is lecture, students are choosing between slumping on couches at home in front of their screens or passively nodding off in classrooms.