So yesterday I logged into my first grad school class and found that there was a lot of work to do. Well, there wasn’t very much actual work to do towards the program, but lots of work to do to set myself up for the class.
There’s a wiki, a normal login account, and a virtual classroom account login. It took me about 5 hours of reading to get everything setup and I’d actually used shit like this before. I hope that the rest of the students with different backgrounds have as easy a time setting themselves up, but I doubt it. The teacher said that it was going to be overwhelming at first, but if we all keep at it, we’ll get used to it "soon enough"
I don’t really know how they could have done things differently, but I think that when I design things/classes, I’d consider it a FAIL if the adjective people described it as was "overwhelming" For example, would you buy any of these items:
overwhelming toaster?
overwhelming foreman grill?
overwhelming condom?
overwhelming shoes?
overwhelming glasses?
I think not.
I don’t know what the alternative is for teaching an online class, so I’ll just leave that up to the pros.