my online ws class for fall is full.
heard some permanent folks talking in the hall today about how temporary people are applying for funding for developing online course conversions. how the department is losing all input on these issues. how it's going to turn into a bunch of contractors doing the online work.
I stuck my head out for a moment and said -- the adjuncts are signing up for the online classes because, so far, they always fill. furthermore, no adjunct has lost an online class to a full-time person when the full-time person has to take somebody's class. maybe that will happen in the future when more folks have online courses up and running, but for now, noone seems to want to put together an online class over the weekend before the semester starts.
a whole different motivation underlying these choices we're making when classes suddenly are not filling the way they did a year or two ago.
And -- you can't teach an on-line class from your yellowed notes and generic syllabus... you know the one where the original has the weeks blank and the department secretary is told to type the new dates in and photocopy it....
I'd love to be around the day you get the full-time job you deserve AND get tenure... You being able to speak your mind will be a wake-up call for some folks..
Posted by: Regular lurker | April 28, 2006 at 09:29 AM