*Such overwork is typical of the electronic workplace; so "online learning" tends to* *be a rip-off for the teachers and the students, as it's a lousy substitute for learning* *face-to-face, in person. *
*MCM* Harvard grad students say remote teaching during coronavirus pandemic leading to ‘workplace abuses’Tentative agreement reached in contract negotiations would limit teaching fellows’ workloads, but bargaining stretches on https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/20/nation/harvard-grad-students-say-remote-teaching-during-coronavirus-pandemic-leading-workplace-abuses/ By Katie Johnston <https://www.bostonglobe.com/staff/johnstonchase?p1=Article_Byline> Globe Staff,Updated April 20, 2020, 2 hours ago <https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/20/nation/harvard-grad-students-say-remote-teaching-during-coronavirus-pandemic-leading-workplace-abuses/?event=event25> <https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Harvard%20grad%20students%20say%20remote%20teaching%20during%20coronavirus%20pandemic%20leading%20to%20%E2%80%98workplace%20abuses%E2%80%99%20%20%20&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bostonglobe.com%2F2020%2F04%2F20%2Fnation%2Fharvard-grad-students-say-remote-teaching-during-coronavirus-pandemic-leading-workplace-abuses%2F%3Fevent%3Devent25&via=BostonGlobe> 18 <https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/20/nation/harvard-grad-students-say-remote-teaching-during-coronavirus-pandemic-leading-workplace-abuses/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter#bgmp-comments> [image: Chance Bonar, a PhD candidate at Harvard, taught an online class from his dorm room in Cambridge on Thursday.]Chance Bonar, a PhD candidate at Harvard, taught an online class from his dorm room in Cambridge on Thursday.BLAKE NISSEN FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE A month ago, Chance Bonar had never even heard of Zoom, let alone taught a Harvard class using it. He’d never had to answer questions from students on an online chatboard during class, or edit a professor’s recorded lecture to post online. But now the Harvard PhD candidate is doing all those things and more as he navigates the world of remote teaching during the coronavirus pandemic. And that includes helping professors who are relying heavily on him and other graduate student teachers — known as teaching fellows — to help them figure it out, too. “There’s this expectation that the younger future professors ... have a better grasp on this technology than they do,” said Bonar, 27, who helps teach three courses at the Harvard Divinity School. “Especially in a time of a pandemic, it’s very obvious how much of the burden of teaching and scholarship falls on the teaching fellows.” *Click on the link for the rest.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W9%3D7G6MamVYYTnGFkdUYDqToWydDOeW333bvOE9y7T20g%40mail.gmail.com.
