Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 months agoIts about data collection under the guise of “security”
Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material
MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 months agoIts about data collection under the guise of “security”
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 months ago
It’s also about making it the equivalent of pushing a button for the professor. Want a test that covers chapters X-y? Push three buttons and the students have a test over those chapters. No effort means they can jerk off in the direction of the grant that was just rejected because they used a bad word according to the government.
KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
In my experience professors are heavily overworked and heavily underpaid. Offloading work onto other systems to get a better work-life balance seems like a natural response.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 2 months ago
No disagreement on the overworked and underpaid bits, but I look at it like this: a parent with a full time job is extremely overburdened. Get the kid up in the morning, get the kid dressed, get the kid fed, deal with the inevitable breakdown from not getting the right cereal or the other kid taking the favorite seat, getting the kid’s backpack and homework sorted, and finally get the kid to the bus stop or take said kid directly to school because there was a fight and now the kid isn’t allowed on the bus… and they still have to drive to work by 0800 hours. Just because they’re late to work and in a rush doesn’t excuse the speeding. Teaching is a shitty, hard profession. You don’t get appreciated despite almost literally doing nothing but try to improve the next generation. I still think that turning over the task of teaching (which the courses I had to take did; it was entirely book+online portal driven, very little teacher) to the textbook company is a bad track to take.
KAtieTot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
What is the relation between someone speeding in their car and a professor using a bad set of course materials?
Your analogy doesn’t really establish any causal or relational links. Both subjects are victims of America’s capital-dominated power structure?
Sure better decisions can be made, but how much can you blame the subject under duress? How much blood can you reasonably expect the parent or teacher to draw from the stone? At what cost of their health?