Monday, February 2, 2009
I have eleven students in my distance studies course. Eight of them are in London, so only three are actually studying at a distance. One of those three emailed me the day before the first graded part of their ongoing research paper was due: the dreaded reference list. The task for Stage I: Reference list was to come up with a mere 10 items from academic sources that might be used to describe the motivation and background for the chosen research topic. This student had emailed me to say that they had started the project that week and found that the UWO library system had inexplicably locked them out of the remote access, leaving them unable to use PsychInfo to look up titles and unable to retrieve any online articles for which UWO students have access through the UWO site licence.
About a month passed between then and now, and I received an email today saying that the issue of this student's ability to access the UWO resources has still not been resolved, and they consequently are unable to submit the 10-12 page introduction (+ reference list) that was due on Friday of last week. What the hell?
1 comments:
hopefully you had a clause in your contract, er i mean syllabus, that stated quite clearly that no accommodations are given for technical problems and that all technical problems are the student's and not yours....an absolute must for a distance course. you can't imagine how many headaches i avoided by quoting syllabus scripture. and you can't see the tears over email! booyah!
effamous rulz!
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