https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/03/straight-talk-about-online-classes/ Reforming Our Universities Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:19:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/06/03/straight-talk-about-online-classes/#comment-1264399 Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:19:31 +0000 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/?p=31508#comment-1264399 Teaching online courses during the epidemic convinced me that they are a terrible idea for the vast majority of students because, as Dr. Jenkins states, they require self-discipline and self-motivation most students lack. And then came AI. From my anecdotal experience, as well as from studies I’ve read, most students use AI to complete their out-of-class assignments. Because online courses rely almost exclusively on out-of-class work, they are particularly susceptible to AI cheating. This undermines the integrity of online courses and, in my opinion, renders them ineffective and suspect. The upshot is that any employer is a damn fool if he hires someone whose college transcripts are full of online courses because chances are pretty good that the applicant cheated his way through those courses.

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