Why enrollment in many courses dropped for this summer term?

[Parasaurolophus]

If the directive is coming from above, and you're being told lectures will be recorded and reintroduced next semester as a matter of course, then yes, it seems likely to me that there will be significant cuts to the adjunct teaching pool (although somebody still needs to grade things, run the LMS and discussions, etc.).

Depending on what the various contracts and collective agreements look like, however, the lectures may not properly qualify as the CC's property.

[hamburger]

If the directive is coming from above, and you're being told lectures will be recorded and reintroduced next semester as a matter of course, then yes, it seems likely to me that there will be significant cuts to the adjunct teaching pool (although somebody still needs to grade things, run the LMS and discussions, etc.).

Depending on what the various contracts and collective agreements look like, however, the lectures may not properly qualify as the CC's property.

I think there was a mail or survey which claimed that by recording the lectures online, lecturers can rehearsal each lecture several times and choose the best one one to post.  They said that it is better than lectures giving lectures in real-time and make mistakes. There was a survey which reported that the majority of the students preferred to take tests at home rather than in the class because doing it at home is "less stressful"!

[eigen]

Some disciplines don't allow for long-form, "showing your work" type questions.

I'm really curious, could you elaborate on this? Because in campus wide discussions, my understanding was that most of my colleagues had gone this route, across a wide range of disciplines.

[the_geneticist]

Our summer courses are full and have long waitlists, but we have a very different demographic than your school.  Most of our students were unlikely to take summer courses in person due to the cost of living on or near campus.  Now that summer is online and they can take their classes from home, summer is full.  The students see it as a sort of "bonus quarter" where they can catch up on a class or two.
Do students need a student visa to take entirely online classes?  I'm quite curious as I know that other campuses in the area that normally have a very large international population have seen a huge drop in Fall enrollment.

[polly_mer]

Do students need a student visa to take entirely online classes?  I'm quite curious as I know that other campuses in the area that normally have a very large international population have seen a huge drop in Fall enrollment.

A few years ago, the open question in US online discussions was the legality in their home countries of enrolling foreign nationals who remain at home.  The recommendation was "don't, unless you have a physical presence in the relevant country and therefore already have a local legal team who can work on being in compliance with the laws in both countries."

Waivers were issued this spring for foreign nationals studying in the US who ended up on online because there are strict limits regarding online courses for people on student visas.  Nothing I'm reading now indicates that the US is encouraging fully online study for fall for students who remain in their home countries for whatever reason.