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W<\/span><\/p>\n

hile students were at home attending online classes, a major survey was carried out. How did online teaching compare to in-person education? It reached a clear conclusion: Online education does not rank highly in either popularity or in quality.<\/p>\n

Only four per cent of students prefer to take classes online, according to a survey among first-year students conducted by the Danish Evaluation Institute.<\/a>\u00a0 And only two percent said that they like in-person classes and online studies equally.<\/p>\n

In February, a major study was published based on several smaller studies funded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The conclusion was that students and teachers alike experienced a decline in teaching quality due to online teaching, and the authors documented a decrease in \u00bbactivity level and learning outcomes\u00ab among students who were taught online.<\/p>\n

It would therefore be reasonable to expect a similar decrease in students\u2019 grades during the corona period. However, that was not the case.<\/p>\n

The University Post has gained access to the average grades for students at the University of Copenhagen.
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\nIn the years 2017<\/secret>-2021, the average grade for the entire university was between 7.1 and 7.6. The average grades for the summer exams in 2020 and the winter exams in 2020-21 were 7.3 and 7.2, respectively<\/secret>.<\/p>\n

Thus, students\u2019 grades in 2020 were similar to previous years.<\/p>\n

Corona bonus<\/h3>\n

It is not surprising that grades did not decrease during the pandemic, according to Associate Professor in History, Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen. After 24 years at university, he is not afraid to suggest a possible explanation for why students achieved normal grades despite the disadvantages of online teaching:<\/p>\n

\u00bbThe students were quite simply given a corona bonus. Since students received slightly worse teaching, the instructors did not see fit to punish them for the corona situation,\u00ab says Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen.<\/p>\n

The average grade level did not decrease, because most teachers took the circumstances into account when awarding grades. According to Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen this is fair.<\/p>\n

\u00bbA grade is first and foremost a statement about a person\u2019s ability and diligence. Describing a concrete learning outcome is secondary. Therefore, the grading system is not clinically objective. It is always based on general circumstances, such as how far into the course a student is. New Public Management ideologues may dream of comparing a list of learning objectives and the grade scale. But that is not how it works in reality. If you had to create such precise objectives, it would turn the system into an iron corset,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n

\u00bbEveryone hates it\u00ab<\/h3>\n

Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen can imagine a scenario where online teaching may continue, even after the threat of corona has subsided, however.<\/p>\n

\u00bbI can imagine that some university politicians will see it as an opportunity to save money on classroom space.\u00ab<\/p>\n

But if you ask him, there is no reason to believe that the \u00bbonline adventure,\u00ab as he calls it, will have a happy ending. As coordinator for two courses, Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen has been in contact with several teachers and overall, they have not painted online teaching in a positive light.<\/p>\n

\u00bbEveryone hates it,\u00ab he says. \u00bbI have not come across any teachers who love online teaching, although some have been brilliant at making the best out of the situation, and the few students who were happy with it have special needs or circumstances.\u00ab
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How did online teaching compare to in-person education? It reached a clear conclusion: Online education does not rank highly in either popularity or in quality.<\/p>\n<p>Only four per cent of students prefer to take classes online, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eva.dk\/sites\/eva\/files\/2020-12\/Minianalyse%20om%20onlineundervisning_0.pdf\">according to a survey among first-year students conducted by the Danish Evaluation Institute.<\/a>\u00a0 And only two percent said that they like in-person classes and online studies equally.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a major study was published based on several smaller studies funded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. The conclusion was that students and teachers alike experienced a decline in teaching quality due to online teaching, and the authors documented a decrease in \u00bbactivity level and learning outcomes\u00ab among students who were taught online.<\/p>\n<p>It would therefore be reasonable to expect a similar decrease in students\u2019 grades during the corona period. However, that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>The University Post has gained access to the average grades for students at the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":118835,"id":118835,"title":"table","filename":"table.jpg","filesize":25085,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/professor-at-university-of-copenhagen-students-were-given-a-corona-bonus\/table\/","alt":"","author":"73","description":"","caption":"","name":"table","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":118717,"date":"2021-04-12 10:08:09","modified":"2021-04-12 10:08:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":732,"height":117,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table-150x117.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":117,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table-480x77.jpg","medium-width":480,"medium-height":77,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","medium_large-width":732,"medium_large-height":117,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","large-width":732,"large-height":117,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","1536x1536-width":732,"1536x1536-height":117,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","2048x2048-width":732,"2048x2048-height":117,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table-290x46.jpg","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":46,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table-290x117.jpg","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":117,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table-700x112.jpg","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":112,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/table.jpg","extended-width":732,"extended-height":117}},"style":"narrow","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":false,"alternative_caption":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"Content","content":"<p>In the years <secret text=\"This only includes the last part of 2017.\">2017<\/secret>-2021, the average grade for the entire university was between 7.1 and 7.6. <secret text=\"We have not taken into account any variations in the number of students who sat exams in each period.\">The average grades for the summer exams in 2020 and the winter exams in 2020-21 were 7.3 and 7.2, respectively<\/secret>.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, students\u2019 grades in 2020 were similar to previous years.<\/p>\n<h3>Corona bonus<\/h3>\n<p>It is not surprising that grades did not decrease during the pandemic, according to Associate Professor in History, Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen. After 24 years at university, he is not afraid to suggest a possible explanation for why students achieved normal grades despite the disadvantages of online teaching:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe students were quite simply given a corona bonus. Since students received slightly worse teaching, the instructors did not see fit to punish them for the corona situation,\u00ab says Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen.<\/p>\n<p>The average grade level did not decrease, because most teachers took the circumstances into account when awarding grades. According to Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen this is fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbA grade is first and foremost a statement about a person\u2019s ability and diligence. Describing a concrete learning outcome is secondary. Therefore, the grading system is not clinically objective. It is always based on general circumstances, such as how far into the course a student is. New Public Management ideologues may dream of comparing a list of learning objectives and the grade scale. But that is not how it works in reality. If you had to create such precise objectives, it would turn the system into an iron corset,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00bbEveryone hates it\u00ab<\/h3>\n<p>Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen can imagine a scenario where online teaching may continue, even after the threat of corona has subsided, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbI can imagine that some university politicians will see it as an opportunity to save money on classroom space.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>But if you ask him, there is no reason to believe that the \u00bbonline adventure,\u00ab as he calls it, will have a happy ending. As coordinator for two courses, Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen has been in contact with several teachers and overall, they have not painted online teaching in a positive light.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbEveryone hates it,\u00ab he says. \u00bbI have not come across any teachers who love online teaching, although some have been brilliant at making the best out of the situation, and the few students who were happy with it have special needs or circumstances.\u00ab<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get a weekly email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}],"expression":{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11485,"filter":"raw"},"enable_comments":true,"align_content":"alignleft","feature_color":"","article_updated":""},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":3210,"name":"Corona","slug":"corona-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3210,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":42,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3606,"name":"online exams","slug":"online-exams","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3606,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":4,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4332,"name":"online teaching","slug":"online-teaching","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4332,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":4560,"name":"Sebastian Olden-J\u00f8rgensen","slug":"sebastian-olden-joergensen-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":4560,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"}],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11485,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/soj2015robertofortuna_crop.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118717"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118885,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118717\/revisions\/118885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}