Traditional students rebelling against online education

[Merlin]

I was meaning to post these articles a few days ago, but forgot until I saw one again tonight. The articles discuss how traditional education students are adapting (or not) to online education.

The first article highlights students who are bringing lawsuits (with the assistance of opportunistic legal firms looking to rake in big money from class-action lawsuits) against their colleges for classes being moved to online. They are asking for their tuition to be refunded in full or part (while still retaining credit for completing the courses I assume). The claim of these suits is that online education is inferior to a traditional education (by nature of the lower costs other schools charge for example), and therefore these traditional students are being overcharged. The students and their families are also asking for secondary non-tuition fees (like dining, dorms, and on-campus services) to be refunded, which at least makes sense to me since they can't use the services they paid for during the SIP.

The second article mainly focuses on online proctoring and see it as a violation of their privacy. The main student highlighted in the article is complaining that she sees any use of a webcam as a violation and that schools should trust that people won't cheat. (LOL) The article also talks about how people are paying others to sit in for them to complete their courses for them (among other ways people are already cheating). It also discusses the ways proctors are trying to combat it.

I figured some of you might be interested or at least entertained by these articles. I found them interesting... particularly coming from an online education focus. Some of the quotes scream about these students' sense of lost privilege (during the middle of a pandemic), but there are some good points too. Some of those points are things we've seen and commented upon in this forum.