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Australia is not a country according to Southern New Hampshire University instructor
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Technically, the prof should be right. Australia is a continent and the Commonwealth of Australia is a country.
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I'm glad the school administration took corrective action by replacing the instructor and refunding the student's money.

Online instruction already struggles with perception issues -- stories like this only make the push for broad acceptance more challenging.
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We've been laughing about this already in another thread:

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...ways-right

(02-11-2018, 09:07 PM)decimon Wrote: Technically, the prof should be right. Australia is a continent and the Commonwealth of Australia is a country.

That's a silly nitpicky argument. But even still, the professor wasn't familiar with the concept of the Commonwealth either.
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(02-11-2018, 10:12 PM)jsd Wrote: We've been laughing about this already in another thread:

https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...ways-right

(02-11-2018, 09:07 PM)decimon Wrote: Technically, the prof should be right. Australia is a continent and the Commonwealth of Australia is a country.

That's a silly nitpicky argument.


Probably not for the field of philosophy.
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It's moot since the professor didn't even make that semantic argument.
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(02-11-2018, 09:24 PM)greencouch Wrote: I'm glad the school administration took corrective action by replacing the instructor and refunding the student's money.

Online instruction already struggles with perception issues -- stories like this only make the push for broad acceptance more challenging.


What about lost time (lost term)?  Lost effort already (the project already completed)?   The student got ripped off.
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BuzzFeed followed up with the student and she is expecting to graduate in May. I don't know how SNHU terms work, but sounds like minimal time lost
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(02-11-2018, 11:53 PM)Life Long Learning Wrote:
(02-11-2018, 09:24 PM)greencouch Wrote: I'm glad the school administration took corrective action by replacing the instructor and refunding the student's money. 

Online instruction already struggles with perception issues -- stories like this only make the push for broad acceptance more challenging.


What about lost time (lost term)?  Lost effort already (the project already completed)?   The student got ripped off.



The article mentions that her grade was eventually updated to a B+, her tuition refunded, and the instructor replaced. The students for this class are likely finishing out the remaining 3 weeks of the term with a substitute instructor (something they've done in the past when instructors couldn't finish out the term for one reason or another.)
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I think the college went above and beyond - probably because of the viral negative publicity. To think this is an isolated event, limited to distance learning, or somehow reflects on a specific institution's own merit is a narrow view of who little oversight instructors & professors have. Welcome to academic freedom, the land of no oversight.
In fact, I'd even go out on a limb and say that IF a faculty member EVER had a dept head reading the comments they wrote on a student's paper or "double checking" grades *as a matter of routine*, the college would face a lawsuit. Only if a student escalated something would there ever be any kind of checking. The instructor/faculty IS the authority in the classroom. Students suffer at the whim of faculty everywhere - one more reason to CLEP classes and get out with your degree as fast as possible.
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