You are childish, and unreliable. You showed very little real interest in actually teaching a class. You did very little to foster real communication between students. Online courses are problematic, because there is really only text to judge a student's effort by. When I take an online course, I expect a certain amount of reliability from a teacher. When I log into a class and see a post that uses "*rolls eyes*" in it, I rather lose respect for the teacher posting such drivel.
I asked a simple question in the online forum so that anyone else who had the same question might be able to benefit from the answer. This is respectful to my fellow students. I don't see what the big deal was with posting exactly what you emailed to me far earlier than ten days after my original posting.
Web Tycho can be unreliable, and sometimes it does not even show me when there is a new message.
That quote would give any student in your class grounds to appeal any grade they received if it were at all late. You cannot expect students to hold to a particular standard when you do not yourself. If I as a student am expected to check the conferences -daily- and remain involved with the discussions, should you not also hold yourself to that same standard? This is not high school. This is not 'Do as I say and not as I do." This is college. You are an instructor at a supposedly respected university. I expect better. I am paying your salary.
I will -never- take another class you teach. I can certainly promise you that. and you'd better believe I am going to look forward to seeing my final exam, considering your personal opinion of me. Have no doubt if I feel it was lowered due to your personal opinion of me, I will appeal it. I will do everything in my power to see that you understand that you are not without responsibility to your students.
I am only sad that I was forced to complete my course evaluation before this occurrence. I can tell you I would not have given you near as good marks as I had, based on the way you have behaved in these final two weeks of class. Did you decide that once the evaluations were completed, you no longer had to act like a professional? That you had no further responsibility to your students? I'm sorry, you're wrong.
That, Ms Hale, is why I will not call you Doctor. Nor will I consider you a teacher, or a professor. You do not seem interested in teaching. You seem interested only in instructing. In bringing students through a class where they can regurgitate information they will never remember. A teacher takes interest in the education of their students.
I am very, very glad to be finished with you, and your class.
