Here is an interesting article about attendance policies in college courses. It is written by a student who appears to have transferred from Florida State to the University of Virginia.
During my spring semester at Florida State University last year, I took an art history course that met at 10 a.m. in a lecture hall across campus — at a location prohibitively distant from my dormitory at that point in my life. Apart from quiz and test dates, I showed up to the class exactly three times that semester: the first day of syllabus overview, the second day when I realized the professor was reading directly from PowerPoint presentations posted online and the third day midway through the semester when I found an attendance policy in the syllabus.
The student who authored this article has relayed this story to make a point about attendance policies. As a professor, I think it actually tells us more about the woeful state of pedagogy at colleges and universities. But wait–isn’t this what happens all the time in online courses?
HT: University Diaries.
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