[EDUCATION] Online Course Enrollment Skyrockets

[EDUCATION] Online Course Enrollment Skyrockets

Andrea Fredrickson-Keller, Citadel Broadcasting Network

As the reconstruction effort continues throughout the galaxy, a number of collages and universities have witnessed a stark increase of online course enrollments, to the point that expansion may be needed to accomidate the rapid increace in demand for telecommunicated classes.

The source of this major upswing however? The Krogan and Quarians

Professor Iamos Tiamichacolonix of the Citadel university theorises that the nomadic lifestyle which both species led had not been able to produce the necessary specialists for sedentary civilisation; "What we're seeing here is a massive transistion among both species settling down, but both lack the required skills and training to fully develop a proper state. This wave of enrollments shows both are gearing up to start not only forming up stable systems of governance, but kickstarting their civilian economies as well."

The wave of enrollments is expected to continue for the forseeable future, causing many to wonder if the two wayward species are attempting to rejoin as productive members of the galactic community.

This one is slightly discomforted by some of the wording. It believes that the krogan and quarians have already been "productive" in terms of their commitment to the galactic community. These ones would likely all be extinct were it not for the efforts of the races in question! While this one is very pleased to observe the formation of closer ties, it respectfully takes issue with the idea that a nomadic existence is less worthy than a sedentary one.

It notes that the quarian population is extremely small, but their contribution to stemming the dark tide of the Reapers was disproportionate!

I would have phrased it better as well, but I get what the writer's trying to get across. Good signs of an era of general peace, while everyone builds their civilizations up. It's beautiful, really.

I've actually been taking online courses for the last six years or so, and have gotten a degree in a xeno languages. Online classes aren't perfect, at least compared to hands on instruction, but they certainly work for me. I don't need to rely on personal translators so much anymore.

I have actually noticed some of this. My classes mostly meet in regular space, with my hologram projection being the odd one out, and most are human, since the school is on earth. But enrollment figures across the board have begun to favor distance learning and I have seen more non-human names in the lists. Not many in my classes though, the Krogan and Quarian students seem to favor more practical fields than xeno-archaeology.

Unfortunately, all the online classes in the galaxy can't fix the species wide problems

But it actually shows that lots of people can focus on other things than their personal species-based problems and (hopefully some day) be useful to society/ies.
I personally think that online classes are definitely an advantage since it gives countless people the chance to participate classes they otherwise might not have the time/location/ability to take. (Regardless their "lifestyle".)
My faculty for example has countless extranet classes and online participants, and it's quite a recipe for success.

Especially during the last couple of years I've seen more and more different species interacting with each other over extranet seminars than I did/do in "real life".
Of course this is no match for doing the same in "real life" but it's a notable step towards self-evident co-operation.

Ever since I started studying at CTU I've focused on many extranet seminars (Mostly for reasons of versatility, and not because I (or my people) lack "the required skills and training to fully develop a proper state") and I am glad it's that easy actually.

The only negative aspect might be that I don't know/never met 60% of my fellow students and tutors personally.

Exoticising little shitpile. Since when do the krogan not have nations? Since when are the krogan nomads? Urdnot, Vedix, Ghurst and Gruul were Krogan nations, not nomadic clans. The fleets that nearly brought citadel space to its knees, that burned Vonskar and sieged the Wreck, they weren't Reaver-Fleets from disorganized space nomads, they were created in foundries and shipyards, designed in temple-universities and corporate drawing boards.

Where does some Citadel fuck who's never looked at Krogan History get off spouting about how Krogan are nomads?

Hush turian, we must be grateful that the aliens have chosen to grace us at all with their secondhand teachings on the creation of a state. Our schools and places of learning are sadly overworked as it is addressing the fact of their sudden nonexistence. Why, the mere processing of this galactic outpouring of sanctimony has been enough to trigger yet another collapse of our nations, sending our leaders and citizens forth into the wastes to claw at the radstained earth and howl at the sky at the great injustice of their own stupidity.

Oh, if only we were as brave as these humans or wise as these turians. Oh if only I could grow hair or a fringe so that I might know what it is to be truly learned.

Oh the kroganity.

The wording in that last paragraph is indeed a bit derogative and a generalization.
The meaning to mee seems to be 'productive' in scientific areas maybe. Like, now we don't have a university tradition on Tuchanka or Rannoch, a galaxy wide connected scientific community on these planets just reestablishing itself. Together with the observation that there seems to be an especially high demand in learning from these two species, that makes some sense. But in a couple of decades, universities on both worlds will offer their own online courses to the rest of the galaxy and krogan or quarian scientists may lecture on other worlds again.
I think this is what she meant (well, I like to think so) but the wording was not the best.

So glad to see that population of less then seventeen million is making enrollment skyrocket.

I know, right? This entire thing is just batshit.

And racist. Batshit and racist.

Can anyone recommend one of these? I'm currently trying to learn more history of the Turian Hierarchy, Asari Republics and Batarian Hegemony without a bias, as I was raised and educated in my youth. I've been using the United Education Front Online College, as it's mostly free and offers the VI assistance.

Its probably the krogan children born just yesterday causing it to skyrocket

Ah yes one of the truly great casualties of the wars my kind has waged against itself: the precision targeting of every krogan place of learning, laboratory, corporation, library, archive, piece of technology and intelligent individual in the known galaxy.

Two billion krogan on the homeworld alone and not a single dataslate between them.

Tragic.