Course Failure

Those people who’re named „student“ are usually considered to be competitive, flexible, motivated and highly-trained in their skills and soft-skills. I expect a certain level of knowledge if I compare myself with other students who are studying in the same subjects and thematics as I do in my study of International Management. But today I saw the other side of this wonderful „cookie and milk“.

For the cooperational courses provided by the Syddansk Universitet from Denmark, all subscribed guest students are ought to participate in their online blackboard software system which introduces course guidelines, materials and general communication of the lecturers and students. All students were told the special introductory course of 45 minutes was an essential requirement to actively use the blackboard software. But this time was honestly an absolute waste of time – no critic to the student who gave us the information, but critic towards the whole idea which might reside in the minds of the danish department: Students are dumb.

In fact, students are quite capable of self-learning the use of a blackboard software, and I was finished within 5 minutes with the whole introductory course’s topics. But once I was finished, I had to redo my expectations of certain students as I heard that they weren’t capable of knowing both their loginname and password to login to their university’s email account and the blackboard system. You guys are going to study International Management – but I beg you not to touch any laptop before participating in an intelligency test.