I would probably enjoy it more if I were working a different job. Part of the problem is that I'm expected to almost double my output with the same time in pay (because online teaching is greatly more labor-intensive, but not recognised as such by the administration). It's also much more frustrating to try and teach certain subjects remotely.
I don't have the opportunity to see the teacher's side of things but I observe my kids side.
My high school boy's largest problem is submitting course work. One teacher wants work emailed as a PDF. Other teachers want it submitted through "Schoolology" which frequently fails to deliver. Some teachers want PDFs. Some want it in the native MS Word or PowerPoint. The biggest problem is that Schoolology says the work was sent but the teacher doesn't get the work and marks him down for not sending in his homework.
My daughter in College has worse problems. All of the professors want things submitted differently. There is no uniformity. Different teacher, different process.
She was trying to submit work for one professor and it wasn't working. She got the professor to screen share so that my daughter could have her observe what my daughter was doing to submit the work. They tried three times with the professor watching what my daughter was doing. All three times the work failed to arrive but my daughter was doing exactly what the professor said to do. The professor finally gave up and gave my daughter a zero or the assignment.
Another professor, US History, had given 50 students an assignment to interview a veteran. 2-3 hour interview. This very old professor would only accept the audio of the 2-3 hour interviews on multiple audio CD! No new notebook comes with a optical media burner any more. None of the 50 students could get access to an optical burner and it was 5 days until Christmas break. There was much screaming and complaining by the 50 students that no one can get access to an optical burner. The Dean finally stepped in and convinced the professor to at least accept the assignment on a USB dongle or SD card. But then the professor would only accept the file as a WMA (Windows Media Audio) and all of the Apple students in the class had to scream and yell that Apple does not support WMA format. Finally the professor relented and allowed MP3 but he never was willing to accept the current format AAC.
Submitting work to teachers is the most difficult thing that my kids face learning remotely. There is no tech support and no real coordination. So teachers do it the all different ways and sometimes those ways don't work.
For work Jan 14-17 I attended some virtual session at the Consumer Electronics Show on the future of education. These people were talking about everyone wearing virtual reality headsets to all "feel" like they were together in the same room. Everyone would take selfies of themselves from different angles and the program would create virtual reality versions of themselves to sit in class or do a chemistry lab. I'm thinking to myself, OK maybe some day they can all sit around the Jedi Council from miles away but what about today? What about just a foolproof way for kids to submit their work?
