Comments on: “Yoshimi, they don’t believe me. But you won’t let those robots defeat me.” http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/yoshimi-they-dont-believe-me-but-you-wont-let-those-robots-defeat-me/ "History is more or less bunk." - Henry Ford, 25 May 1916. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:17:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Contingent Cassandra http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/yoshimi-they-dont-believe-me-but-you-wont-let-those-robots-defeat-me/#comment-4358 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:26:49 +0000 http://moreorlessbunk.wordpress.com/?p=8137#comment-4358 During the regular semester, I set the same email limits with my online students that I set with my face-to-face (or hybrid) ones: I strive for no more than a 24-hour turnaround during the week, and no more than 48 hours over the weekend. Sometimes (usually) I’m much quicker, but they shouldn’t count/plan on it. My students seem to accept this, but they’re mostly enrolled in face to face classes. Students at an online institution — especially one with large, standardized courses with a TA of some sort on call 24 hours a day — probably wouldn’t. There is definitely a tradeoff: the handcrafted/individualized class can’t offer 24-hour-a-day service the way the mass-produced one does.

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