@AlliFlowers @nlowell Would you still insist on this with the understanding that undergraduates now include people who may be older, employed, and are caretakers?
No. I agree it's a step backwards.
Having been one of those students myself and having been a victim of residential requirements for much of my life, I'm deeply committed to seeing them all blown up.
I got my doctorate to learn how to teach them to do it better.
Unfortunately learning how to do it correctly made my inability to get institutions to actually implement policies and procedures that foster success made me bitter and cynical.
@AlliFlowers @mzyw
The problem is that it disproportionally effects lower income, less privileged people who would have the most to gain from gaining the credential.
However.
Until higher ed gets its collective head out of its rectum on how to do online right, it's probably just as well they're limiting the use of their substandard, mangled attempts at milking the cash cow.
JMO after spending over a decade trying to help them work through their issues.
Glad I'm not doing it any more