News Story 4 - AUT Keeps Some Classes Online Leaving Students With Mixed Emotions

Dmello 3/06/2022 AUT Classes

By Daniel Dmello

Students sit through online class while some return to in person learning

AUT have decided to have a mix of online and in person learning for the second half of semester one, leaving students with mixed emotions.

The university had originally announced all classes would be returning to in person teaching for the second half of semester one, some classes however backtracked on that decision.

Some students have been left annoyed and frustrated with the decision to have a mix of classes, while others are happy as it makes university easier for them.

Christian who is a communications student at the universities city campus spoke to me about his frustrations on this decision.

“Because I have an online class just before my in person class it means I have no time to travel between them, and have to go into university to study online. I hated everything about this experience.”

A few of the students however had mixed emotions on the decision, and I was lucky enough to speak with communications and law student Faaizah Begum who told me about her personal experience with this situation.

“I believe there were good and bad sides to this situation. Good because online classes meant I could learn from the warmth and comfort of my room, bad because socializing in university is already hard enough and this situation doesn’t make it any better.”

University campus deserted as a lot of classes stay online

Upon asking questions the courses who decided to stay online informed students about their reasoning for doing so, and claimed covid19 and the growing covid19 cases were the reason for classes in those courses remaining online.

I interviewed business student Talhah Motara to speak about his thoughts and experience with this situation. And while he was frustrated, he also empathized with the university and their decision.

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Auckland University of Technology and the respective deans and lecturers for each course have announced that all classes will return to in person learning from semester 2 starting in July, and they will notify the students if these plans change.

Contacts:

Christian - ddz1512@autuni.ac.nz

Faaizah - qxx1991@autuni.ac.nz

Talhah - +64 274 755 115