At this point I'm really just confused. Do people not realize how many college courses are being taught fully online, and of those, how many are fully asynchronous? "While comprehensive restructuring in higher ed will take time, triage must be administered right now. Institutions must apply a tourniquet to stem the hemorrhaging of college credibility. They must prohibit traditional take-home essays until effective, verifiable safeguards are in place. To fail to do so is no longer pedagogically outdated; it’s ethically indefensible." More than 50% of college students take at least one course online. This trends higher at community colleges (no shocker there), because those students need the most flexibility to complete their degrees while working and caring for families. Online asynchronous courses run on a much higher level of student autonomy and self-motivation and have for decades. We don't need clueless generalizations. We do need help. #Faculty are deeply struggling. I have been teaching online for twenty years. This has been the hardest term of my teaching career. We do need help. We need help in redesigning our courses. We need to be paid to do those redesigns. We need consistent support with obvious and flagrant academic integrity violations that harm students, faculty, and institutions. We need help. What is also "ethically indefensible" is the utter lack of understanding of how the majority of non-traditional students are able to complete their coursework. I need folks to realize that losing online learning would rip college access away from millions of non-traditional (what I call new-traditional) college students. I agree with this article that higher ed's very foundations are at risk. But we can't save it by sacrificing access. #HigherEd https://lnkd.in/eAG4rudV