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With many college and university leaders still unclear about academic and residential opportunities for the fall semester, we started to wonder about the students who would be starting their first year at these higher education institutions
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To find out, we asked. Nearly 150 college-bound high school seniors shared their thoughts by responding to multiple-choice questions and adding more than 500 comments.1
These graduating seniors reported on what their high school teachers did and didn't do well and on what they as students did and didn't do well during the spring. As incoming college/university first-year students, they outlined what they hope their professors will do this fall and how they hope to become effective online students.
The Short Answer
The bottom line from these survey respondents is that a fall online experience needs to be better than spring. High school seniors had negative experiences with the rapid shift to remote teaching in the spring. They didn't fully blame their teachers; they recognized that their teachers had not planned or been trained to go online. And many acknowledged that their own anxiety and isolation made them frequently unmotivated and disengaged...
How Faculty Can Help
We asked: "What are some of the things you definitely want—or don't want—your professors to do?" Students identified three areas: structure (and flexibility), the right amount of meaningful work, and engagement.
In reaction to the unplanned, ad hoc shift to online instruction in the spring, students frequently used the term structure.
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Source: EDUCAUSE Review
