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Psych 101 vs. Online Teaching

I am a big fan of online learning.  When I started college, I struggled... really struggled.  For example?  I ended up taking Psychology 101 three times.  After the second fail, my wife implemented a new family rule for my college career. And that was fair.  With our first baby, a new mortgage, a car payment, and paying tuition, it certainly made good financial sense to not repeat classes.  So why the Psych class fails and the struggle through my associate's degree?  At the time, I was an undiagnosed ADD adult that wanted to study music.  I didn't see how psychology (or those dumb math classes) was (were) going to get me into a position of being a world-class musician.  The content felt irrelevant to me and my first two psych professors didn't seem to have any interest in changing that.  Read, lecture, notes, test; read, lecture, notes, test; ad nauseam.  Testing was about 70% of the grade so when I didn't test well, I flu...

Classic Cars and Blended/Hybrid Teaching

There are three things that I love in this world just slightly less than my wife and kiddos. Music - which I have chosen as my career. Fly-fishing - which may have been an easier choice as a career but harder to make money... plus, I'm not a huge fan of boats or swimming. Classic cars.  This doesn't make money, it eats money.  But man, they are sure fun. A 1963 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 1953 Chevrolet 210. Evidence of a very patient wife. The phrase "they don't make them like they used to" is most definitely applicable to cars.  There is just something about all that steel, chrome and - I swear to you - a smell to them that just can't be replicated.  There's only one problem with classic cars...  in original condition, many are not safe to drive on today's roads.  They have suspension parts that are outdated or unsafe, brakes that are insufficient and unsafe for modern freeway speeds, and outdated electrical systems.  Howe...