In 2014, a report described an 18-year history of "no show" papers as part of a "shadow curriculum" that had persisted for 18 years, whereby students registered for lecture courses which turned out to be more like independent study classes where no professor interaction was required.
Students progress through units each week, with regular assignment due dates, peer collaboration and a high level of professor interaction and feedback, unmatched in many traditional classrooms.
That is, in an ANOVA model, relationship effects are rater × professor interactions.
However, it would be difficult to disentangle student × professor interactions (i.e., relationship effects) from student × topic interactions.
But PASSHE proposals would diminish academic quality, reduce student-professor interaction, increase class sizes, and limit or eliminate faculty research, which they seem to think is unimportant to the pedagogical process.
Most of these differences indicated significantly less student-student and student-professor interaction, less evaluation of the validity of arguments, and more simple memorization of information without conceptual understanding in the 200-level courses (Table 4).
In "Higher Education in the Digital Age," I'm quoted as saying that with the help of the digital media, "we can release ourselves from the shackles that we have gotten used to in the context of in-class teaching.'" Here, I'm referring to the potential of online education to enhance, and not replace, professors' interactions with their students.
Faculty who were experiencing more stress than they could cope with were more likely to withdraw from student-professor interactions, be less accessible to students, and be less involved in the departmental decision making and committee work.
"I am a devoted Apple fan — I was in line for the iPhone," said Axel Roesler, assistant professor for interaction design at the University of Washington in Seattle, but Windows Phone "strikes me as quite different and an advance".
Mintz is the founder of the Mintz Group, an international private-investigation firm ("Clarity in a complex world"), many of whose clients are law firms pursuing civil cases, and Chen is a designer and an adjunct professor in interaction design at the New School.
My sense is that you will be concerned about expanding class sizes that increase professor-student ratios and decrease professor-student interaction, an important and overlooked element of higher contemporary education.
