JUST IN: Stanford is canceling all in-person courses for the remainder of the winter quarter

[MelissaB]

JUST IN: @Stanford is canceling all in-person courses for the remainder of the winter quarter due to #coronavirus concerns.

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Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

1. USC is going to temporarily move classes online to test their capacity to do so if needed down the

USC is going to temporarily move classes online to test their capacity to do so if needed down the road

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[deurbano]

9. That's smart!

[emmaverybo]

2. Major. Stanford is the Harvard of the West. My DOG, school of medicine too? This is just the

start, eventually all schools will cancel in person classes. I guess they will keep the science facilities open.

[MelissaB]

4. My daughter got into several grad schools for physics. So far Berkeley, Cornell, and UC

Santa Barbara have cancelled the open houses.

It's coming...

[emmaverybo]

6. Oh gosh. What will she do?

[MelissaB]

15. They are going to do teleconferences.

Not the same as being there. She especially needed to see Berkeley.

[emmaverybo]

17. Was thinking that's how, but not the same. Berkeley such a beautiful campus, but she can only

get the feeling by being on the campus anywhere and the environs, talking to people, touring facilities...maybe some forums can help too.

[MissB]

10. My son is attending one right now

Thru tomorrow, and has another next week. Both east coast schools; he was out west two weeks ago. No California schools.

He knows where he will go- just enjoying the visits to see new cities and nearby friends.

[Leghorn21]

3. Good for them - tough call, but they're 100% doing the right thing

Mighty sorry, Stanford, y’all take care

[SunSeeker]

5. Very troubling. Stanford School of Medicine faculty member has it.

This is what happens when we don't protect our nurses and doctors. Who is going to care for us when we get sick?

God knows how many people this Stanford doctor may have infected...or who he got it from.
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2020/03/06/medical-school-faculty-member-tests-positive-for-coronavirus/

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. When does their winter quarter end?

[MichMan]

11. What about on campus housing?

Is it being closed and evacuated?

[USALiberal]

12. So you get no class credit? A wasted semester? nt

[obamanut2012]

13. No, as it stated, all classes will be virtual instead of in person

Exactly as they do now with distance learning/on-line classes.

[USALiberal]

14. OK, my bad, missed that! nt

[Ms. Toad]

19. . . . except that a thrown-together online course is worth little.

Online learning requires a lot more than just tossing a class online. Professors used to teaching in-person classes cannot develop quality online courses in the time they (we) are given.

I'm cobbling one together now on the fly because of changes mandated by the faculty last spring. My student reviews are consistently positive - aside from the cobbled together class. I know it is nowhere near my best (or even acceptable) quality.

Quality distance learning takes far more time to develop than in-person learning because you can adapt in-person learning to the visual and verbal feedback on a daily basis. Because of the time required to develop the online material, there is little to no opportunity to adapt on the fly.

So - those courses for which an online course has already been developed will continue to be the high quality products they likely are. As to the others . . . not so much.

I'm contemplating continuing to require synchronous attendance because of the hit the quality would take were I to try to switch to pure asynchronous online.

[MichMan]

16. Are the tuition and fees the same amounts for on campus and on line ?

If not, is Stanford refunding the difference ?

[Ms. Toad]

18. It's hitting all universities -

We have zero cases in our state, but I've been ordered to designa "teach-out" plan by the start of spring break in the "unlikely" event we have to cancel classes.

All university sponsored travel has been canceled through May 31.

A friend of mine at UNL (no cases outside of repatriated folks quarantined there) reports most international travel was cancelled yesterday.