Attention Economy


Sunday, August 30, 2020

Seeing the Lighter Side of Things

Teaching Modalities for Fall Semester - David Galef offers a facetious look at the different ways of offering courses at U of All People.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/08/28/facetious-look-different-ways-offering-courses-fall-opinion 
Face/No Face: Combination of live and online teaching spitballed by remote administrators to regain lost revenue. Teachers address live, huddled-apart students while frantically eyeballing the rest of the class via thumbnail views on laptop. Live students must wear masks and are discouraged from nosers or neck-warmer styles. Online students must be at least half-attentive since they will form the next live group, when the formerly live group retreats to online or astral projection. Instructors are multitaskers used to driving while texting”.