OSU, Virginia move summer school classes online

[pk2]

Ohio State announced today that summer school classes would move to online learning. Virginia did the same the other day, for the first two of their three summer sessions.

Of course this is just a hunch, but I’m guessing this will open the floodgates, and many (or most, or all) colleges and universities will follow. This does not bode well for a “typical” college football season in 2020.

Coronavirus: Ohio State moves all summer courses online

Ohio State University said Wednesday all summer term courses will be conducted online due to coronavirus concerns.

www.dispatch.com

 

[Some guy]

Ohio State announced today that summer school classes would move to online learning. Virginia did the same the other day, for the first two of their three summer sessions.

Of course this is just a hunch, but I’m guessing this will open the floodgates, and many (or most, or all) colleges and universities will follow. This does not bode well for a “typical” college football season in 2020.

Coronavirus: Ohio State moves all summer courses online

Ohio State University said Wednesday all summer term courses will be conducted online due to coronavirus concerns.

www.dispatch.com

Nothing right now bodes well for anything being typical.
But summer classes start in late May or early June. This is a decision about late May.
Not a decision about late july.

 

[pk2]

Nothing right now bodes well for anything being typical.
But summer classes start in late May or early June. This is a decision about late May.
Not a decision about late july.

From the above linked website: The summer term will begin and end a week later than originally scheduled, beginning May 13 and ending July 31, with finals scheduled for Aug. 3-5.

From Virginia’s website:

• Session I: May 18 - June 13 (Remote instruction only)
• Session II: June 15 - July 11 (Remote instruction only)
• 8 Week Session: June 15 - Aug. 7 (Remote instruction only)

Yes, these are decisions about July, and also August.

 

[WriterGoph]

I don't see the relevance. Summer school classes are easy to move online. These schools are just getting ahead of it and playing it safe. There is literally zero reason to have students try to come back on campus for summer courses.

Much ado about nothing here, IMO. Let me know when fall semester classes are moved online

 

[MplsGopher]

They aren't going to switch gears in the middle of the summer. So this decision has to do with the start of the summer semester/term, which for most schools is in May.

 

[pk2]

I don't see the relevance. Summer school classes are easy to move online. These schools are just getting ahead of it and playing it safe. There is literally zero reason to have students try to come back on campus for summer courses.

Much ado about nothing here, IMO. Let me know when fall semester classes are moved online

The relevance is that schools are keeping students off campus through the end of July, and into August. If they don’t want students on campus for classes, they likely won’t want students in their athletic facilities, either.

 

[MplsGopher]

The relevance is that schools are keeping students off campus through the end of July, and into August. If they don’t want students on campus for classes, they likely won’t want students in their athletic facilities, either.

They don't want to switch gears in the middle of it. Even if the "all clear" signal is given on July 4th, they don't want to do a big shift right in the middle. So, this is about May, much more than it's about August.

 

[Some guy]

This is a decision based on where they are going to start classes.
It’s much easier to be in one format for a whole term than to switch mid term at all levels of education.

If the virus is still here in September expect colleges to go online the whole fall semester even if they think it’ll be gone by mid October

From the above linked website: The summer term will begin and end a week later than originally scheduled, beginning May 13 and ending July 31, with finals scheduled for Aug. 3-5.

From Virginia’s website:

• Session I: May 18 - June 13 (Remote instruction only)
• Session II: June 15 - July 11 (Remote instruction only)
• 8 Week Session: June 15 - Aug. 7 (Remote instruction only)

Yes, these are decisions about July, and also August.

 

[Some guy]

They don't want to switch gears in the middle of it. Even if the "all clear" signal is given on July 4th, they don't want to do a big shift right in the middle. So, this is about May, much more than it's about August.

This is correct

which is why I don’t think K-12 schools will go back for two weeks at the end of May and early June even though many prognostications have the thing dying out in late May.

The model everyone on the news today has been citing is predicting 0 deaths per day nationwide before July 10

 

[noamfromm]

From the above linked website: The summer term will begin and end a week later than originally scheduled, beginning May 13 and ending July 31, with finals scheduled for Aug. 3-5.

From Virginia’s website:

• Session I: May 18 - June 13 (Remote instruction only)
• Session II: June 15 - July 11 (Remote instruction only)
• 8 Week Session: June 15 - Aug. 7 (Remote instruction only)

Yes, these are decisions about July, and also August.

Its a decision that affects July and August, but keeping the classes online the entire session merely removes uncertainty from students lives so that they do not need to plan around hypothetical dates of returning to in-person instruction. It would be different if there was a session that went from July 11 to August 7 that was conducted through remote instruction, then I would agree with your claim.