Emporia State University and Flint Hills Technical College are ending their first full week of remote-only education.
An update was the focus of KVOE’s ESU Buzz with President Allison Garrett and Provost David Cordle on Thursday. Garrett called it a “massive” adjustment to go from the traditional classroom setting to something new. She also says most educators had some experience with online education going into this new era, and those who didn’t “got up to speed quickly.” That doesn’t account for all the information technology adjustments the past two to three weeks.
Cordle says professors did not have much time to reconfigure their classes, and he credited them for making things happen under the compressed timetable.
Meanwhile, Flint Hills Technical College President Dean Hollenbeck anticipated several challenges with certain programs needing hands-on education. The college, he says, is working through those at this time.
Cordle says the first full week of remote classes has gone better than he expected. He says most course schedules are still the same, but some professors have moved to platforms where prior schedules don’t matter as much as they used to.
Hollenbeck credited faculty and staff for their work, saying they have done a great job of adjusting to the current situation, and he thanked ValuNet FIBER for its work in enhancing broadband technology. He says the college is making sure students get the education and support they need as they get their degrees or certificates.
