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NER vent, online classes
It's so hard to respect instructors when they deliver their lectures in written form.
I'm currently reading one that has mother's instead of mothers, consistently mistakes effect for affect, and has quite a few other examples of bad grammar.
Another class, the instructor argued with me that calorie = kilocalorie. No, Calorie=kilocalorie. She said then that calorie = Calorie, not because it's scientifically accurate, but because the media confuses it. This was part of a test question that I got "wrong" because I answered scientifically. It's a fracking science class! Small point, I know, but that was the difference between a B and an A for me. And it's kind of a big point when it's a class on nutrition.
I know these people have credentials, and they have more education than I, but come on. . At the very least proofread. And admit to a mistake instead of defending it with "the media does it wrong so we should too." I taught; I was caught making errors all the time. It happens. You own it and move on.
OK, vent over. I'm just working on my classes right now, and it was really getting to me.
Re: NER vent, online classes
Yeah, my online professor makes lots of typos as well.
Although, since I go to fashion school, I assume intellectual superiority on my part. I'm an elitist snob.
You have to read their lectures? My DH had online classes and he just watched videos of the profs in an actual class. I thought that's how they all were. Why are online classes more expensive than regular classes if you do all the work?
I would judge poor grammar too. These people are supposedly the top educators. Unless they're foreign they should have mastery over basic rules of English grammar.
I've been with 2 schools online now. Only in one grad class in one of the schools was a lecture recorded. She provided the transcript, too, so I just read that. The rest have had snippets of lecture, but mostly we just do online discussions and write a paper or two. Some of them have online quizzes, but not all of them.
Granted, I did my undergrad at a highly ranked university, and now I'm at an online community college and a university that caters to the military (online and on bases). I hate to be snobby about the education, but that's probably a big part of what I see as a difference between online and conventional. It's probably just more of a difference in the quality of schools.
Really, though, you shouldn't need a PhD to have decent grammar. And if you have a PhD in biology, you shouldn't be telling me that people can detect photons that beam from their eyes and land on your neck. Seriously. I got that in a lecture.
people can detect photons that beam from their eyes and land on your neck.
Oh my
Yuck! My online class is thankfully a geography class, so the professor has a nice social studies/liberal arts background. He rarely makes any typos. However, as we all know, a bit is lost in e-mail. We had to write e-mails telling him our interests/education, etc., and I wrote that I was a history major who loved colonial American history. I worked at three historic houses, etc. He wrote back how he likes the last 50 years of history because colonial has been "so done."
Um, thanks for crapping on my undergrad degree (not that I focussed only on colonial) and former employment/hobbies!
I had to drop an online music history class last summer becuase the book was horrific, and of course she wrote it. Everything came out of the book so just not worrying about the book was not an option.
I even had my music major husband try and figure out how to comprehend her writing style and answer her questions and he couldnt do it. HORRIBLE.
I am retaking the class online now with a different professor and it is 100x better.