Learning in a COVID-19 world that demands safe distance and less contact is challenging but institutes of higher learning must rise to the ...
A HYBRID MODEL
That is, all our teaching will be a hybrid; students can attend class in person, online, or both, including watching the class recording afterwards. We are delighted to do so, since there is a near-universal consensus that purely online teaching, to use a technical expression, … sucks. With the sheer number of ongoing classes, teaching may also be in odd spaces. We will be using all our classrooms, even old and windowless ones that haven’t been used for years.
We have decided to enforce these transparently, by making student feedback scores on each course available to our entire community.
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