Lehigh moves to remote learning

[jdalu75]

Is it fair to have students pay $60 K a year for remote learning?

Hardly seems like it.

Liberty University has become wealthy over the past decade by offering remote courses at full-tuition prices. Their endowment was under a million dollars in the mid-1990s. Now it's larger than Lehigh's.

[RichH]

LU is providing housing for all who cant get home and for continuing winter sports.

[jdalu75]

Close to 20 years ago, when my son was early in elementary school, there was a bad flu outbreak all over the east.  Virginia was hit pretty hard; all you heard about was how bad was the flu epidemic going to get.  Then we had an 18-inch snowfall.  That pretty much shut things down around here for a good while; the schools were closed for more than a week.  I think my wife and I were home for three or four days because we couldn't get off our street to get to work.

By the time the kids got back to school, nobody was talking about the flu anymore.  We'd all been quarantined by the snow.  I'm viewing this as a quarantine without snow.

[BP-LU87]

Lehigh just announced that the remote learning will now be for the remainder of the semester. My daughter is pretty bummed out about that. Still has the classes but without all of the fun stuff.

[gimpeltf]

Then we had an 18-inch snowfall. 

Flurries!

[jdalu75]

Maybe where you live, not here.

[lu_alum]

Lehigh just announced that the remote learning will now be for the remainder of the semester. My daughter is pretty bummed out about that. Still has the classes but without all of the fun stuff.

How are they conducting labs remotely?

[LU808]

They'll be experimental......

[BP-LU87]

Lehigh just announced that the remote learning will now be for the remainder of the semester. My daughter is pretty bummed out about that. Still has the classes but without all of the fun stuff.

How are they conducting labs remotely?

Each prof is handling it differently (and some haven’t explained what they are doing yet). For Chemistry lab, the lab is timed and the prof will provide the data/ results observed for the lab and the students will need to interpret/analyze/conclude in the allotted time. SoundS like a test to me. Obviously not hands on.

Her one class yesterday was cancelled. This morning she had a live one via zoom that worked pretty well give the small class size.

[LU in the Hub]

How are they conducting labs remotely?

You never learned to dry lab? Choose a percent of error and then work back and derive the data. Freshman Chem and Sophomore Physics labs taught me I was more of a software type than a hardware type.