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Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Academic Senate Survey on Impact of Switch to Remote Instruction

UC has posted a survey of faculty concerning the switch to remote instruction. Description:

In spring 2021, the UC Systemwide Academic Senate launched the Remote Instruction Survey. This dashboard includes responses from faculty and instructors about their experiences with remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic and thoughts about returning to in-person instruction.

The survey summary may have been posted for awhile but yours truly became aware of it only recently when a news article appeared indicating - based on the survey - that cheating had gone up at UC-San Diego:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-09-20/online-classes-cheating-ucsd 

In any case, you can click on the survey yourself at:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/infocenter/faculty-instructor-remote-instruction-survey

It's a bit tricky to use. For example, to get to the cheating question, you first select "student learning" and then find the appropriate question on the drop-down menu as below:


When you make the selection, you will see the image on the top of this blog post which indicates that about half of the faculty said they believed that there was more cheating. (Note that some courses do not have the kinds of exams for which more cheating would be enabled by remote instruction.)

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