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The Wall?

Please excuse my rant ...

Trust me, I'm already a brick in the wall. That "educational mission" was fulfilled decades and decades ago. Now, please give me what I need and what I deserve.

Can we agree that one (major) purpose of organized higher education is to learn? Can we agree that if qualified individuals -- experts, if you will --- are being paid to teach, then they should actually teach? Or, at the very least, they should provide a smidgen of instruction -- right?

When did taking an online course become synonymous with "teach yourself?" I am thoroughly baffled by the massive volume of completely self-guided consumption, digestion, and regurgitation of material demanded by the past two master's level courses I've taken. Apparently, I am a naive dinosaur for expecting to actually learn something while exhausting myself to meet the unrealistic output requirements of these courses.

PS: Absolutely unrealistic workload with no teaching element. Zero. Yes, I'm old but God as my witness, a master's program designed for working adults should not have two papers, a midterm, and a final in addition to weekly assignments --- readings, multiple exercises, and multiple discussion posts with a minimum "reply" requirement. Did you hear me? One class. No teaching element.

I do not get it. It makes no sense.

One last thing, it is laughably logistically ridiculous to have 12-15 sources for a 10-page paper.

End rant.