For those hunting for jobs...here is where you don't want to stay working.
You have 2 live none required for students chats TALKING to students. If students don't show you still have to talk for an hour.
You have to have one office hour per week. You have to have 2 faculty meetings per term (2 per five weeks). Grades must be turned in with comments on individual assignments up to 35 students per class with in 72 hours. Regular announcement, discussion board postings, and email rules apply.
Here is where I had moral objections. If a student turned in 100 percent of their work on the last day of class I had to grade it. I could only take off up to 20 % for tardiness. So you have 5 weeks 3 assignments per week and every term I had 5 or 6 students turn in 100 percent of the course on the last day, and I had 72 hours to grade it.
The student is always right at this institution. It is very shoot the faculty first ask questions later. Also very little is done about plagiarism. I had students I would turn in for plagiarism charges 3 or 4 times in my course and it wouldn't hold up. These are students that turned in an assignment with someone else's name on it. On "accident", and there was not enough "proof" to give them an F. Don't you type other people's names on your assignments all the time? ;)
There is no chain of command and students can contact, their advisor, your boss or the company president if they don't like their grade.
The discussion board requires students to respond to at least 2 students positively and at least one student "constructively." Which they all interpreted to mean flame thy neighbor.
You are not allowed to give an F on an assignment as long as it is submitted. The lowest grade you could give is a D. Finally you were required to do 3 or so in services a year that were NOT paid and took anywhere from 20-30 hours to complete sometimes.
I just couldn't do it anymore. I had to let that school go.
2,000 per class for a 5 week class and you go 3 classes per term
I still didn't care!
Monday, June 16, 2008
You know you shouldn't work here when....
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Good golly is that all at ONE school? I've had one or more of those at different schools but never all that at one!!
OH yes one school. :)
It's similar at The University of Mars.
Now, because we know students use the Internet to see how many first class honours students graduate from each university, we have been told to raise our marking on student assignments and exams.
This year we are going to have a record number of students getting first class degrees. Most of whom would have received a 2.1 only last year.
Regarding plagiarism: All students are seen as money paying customers first and students second - and we don't want to lose our salary revenue do we? Manipulative students know this now and exploit it to the maximum. They know they have two or three strikes – so why not go for it?
I wonder where it will all end? Perhaps some universities will begin to market themselves as being tough on plagiarism and other forms of cheating – as being hard place to get a degree from and first class degree at – so that their reputation, and that of their graduates, will be seen as outstanding?
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