I’m tired of these college intuitions complain about cheating during COVID because people have scholarships, and tons of money lost on the line if they flunk a class.
Also because of COVID there are not much tutors available to help if you. Unless you spend more money for a third party tutor.
Not to mention the required homework access codes or online discussion forum services you’re forced to buy for each individual class, because the school has partnered with these services and gets kickbacks for forcing their students to buy them.
Man, I’m glad I’m in a country where we haven’t yet developed these technological advancements in fucking students over. Here the lecturers just directly give us links to pirated copies of the books (at least in the faculty I’m in, medical students are probably somewhat closer to this system, although we at least don’t have such a well-developed “education” industry so it’s probably not so bad with regards to integration with various services)
i’m in the states and went to a state school and i am grateful that the overwhelming majority of my instructors pirated/photocopied/scanned the necessary material, because i know that my experience was uncommon. it seems like the system is set up here so that it’s easiest for instructors to throw their students, financially, to the wolves. and with how much of instruction is offloaded onto “adjunct” professors (part time, no benefit, precarious workers), i can understand why many go that route, because their pay is dogshit.
