We all wear masks even when offline. Students, one of devotion to the class, until it falls off when sleeping. Professors, one of 'studied indifference', which also falls off when a student sleeps in the front row. In the online world, it's a mask with the faces barely visible. A different mask, maybe.
What is the fun in an education with only content being transferred, but the experience missing? In a residential course particularly, the fun is in meeting people, friends and others, during your stay. Sharing stories, assignments, discussing things that happened during the day.
A marketing guru once said 'sell the sizzle, not the steak.' Meaning that the tadka is as important as the dal. Online education is like dal without tadka, or sabzi without salt. Insipid, though content learnt may be the same.
No comments:
Post a Comment