“HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course I’m taking died in 2019 and he’s technically still giving classes since he’s literally my prof for this course and I’m learning from lectures recorded before his passing.” In a follow-up tweet, he wrote, “I mean, I guess I technically read texts written by people who’ve passed all the time, but it’s the fact that I looked up his email to send him a question and PULLED UP HIS MEMORIAM INSTEAD that just THREW ME OFF A LITTLE.”
Indeed. The distaste/deceit is in the framing of course. We read (and now, view) things by dead people all the time. But the uni framing the video as "your professor" umm violates assumed and many stated principles... for instance you can contact them without a seance of a can of Ubik. They're charging students money for uni lectures from profs you can't ask a question of and that they no longer have to pay.
The mind set of the group of people who decided this would be acceptable, is cruel and criminal imho. A very corporate mindset
I do wonder, though. My CompSci profs ranged from great to terrible.
If I were fully informed, I wonder if I’d choose recorded lectures by a great (but dead) prof, with a qualified staffer to answer questions over recorded/live lectures from a terrible (but living) presenter?
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