The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/virtual-classes/)
Instead of walking to classes and seeing friends around Cornell’s campus, students are finishing the remainder of the fall semester at home through a screen, after break –– a challenge for most students.
With over two-thirds of classes online, teaching assistants have faced major adjustments.
Even during a normal college semester, Cornell students struggle to take care of their mental health, caught between endless projects, exams and papers.
After announcing a hybrid semester in July, about 80 percent of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations classes are being offered fully online.
Chen spoke to the lessons that students could take away from the program, including valuable soft skills such as interpersonal and communication skills, strong teamwork and leadership skills as well as hard skills including “business acumen from their mentors” and “how to implement industry practices in creating secure and robust software and designing impactful, user-friendly products.”
As the fall semester’s mode of instruction remains uncertain, professors begin to prepare for another semester of virtual instruction.
Cornellians must adjust to online classes halfway through the semester — with some transitions being easier than others.
Cornell transitions to online classes on April 6. Students from other universities have had a variety of experiences with the virtual shift.
Cornell IT is confident that Zoom will be able to support the thousands of classes that need to be conducted online.