And if you don't believe me...

... to be a serious person you would need to read (all) this first before you say anything:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C20&q=effectiveness+of+remote+college+teaching&btnG=

And this:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C20&q=does+distance+education+work&btnG=

Now, obviously as a lifelong practitioner of the educational theory of Kurt Hahn, I'm biased. Hahnian teaching requires physical contact, not just physical presence. But let's remember that Unity College was one of a handful of Hahnian colleges in the US and so unique in that role. It was disposed of, unthinkingly, by a decision process that did not even consider the full nature of what was to be lost.

I doubt very much that the board even knows what kind of education was previously provided. You'd think they would at least know who Kurt Hahn was. But I doubt it very much.

So, read this too:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C20&q=educational+theory+of+Kurt+Hahn&btnG=

Distance learning doesn't work well

Duh!

I mean, ask any experienced in-person educator that has tried distance learning, or worked on a later sequential class with students that took the previous class remotely and those who didn't, in the same class.

Oh. I forgot. We're not allowed to talk to the teachers any more. Not without going through the President first.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/11/23/covid-research-remote-school-poverty/

Today's rant

 

Rescue Service

The team may be defunct but SAR service goes on. Mike Latti, former UCSAR officer, found the cas with his SARdog Luna.

If you want to know why an institution of higher education focussed in part on SAR, you should refer to Kurt Hahn, the founder of Gordonstoun School and Outward Bound, on his theory of rescue service. 

“The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth’s inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.”

https://www.wmtw.com/article/maine-man-rescued-spending-30-hours-lost-woods/41829452