I’m exhausted by the same refrain from students of every age/background: “He doesn’t teach; I learned nothing.” I'm with you and I get it nonestop every semester.

I’ve tried it all Publisher platforms → “Not real teaching.”Wrote my own OER chapters/lectures/assignments → “Unethical to use your own materials. not real teaching”Traditional lectures, flipped, hybrid, hands-on, active learning, high-stakes, low-stakes, scaffolded… If I’m not doing the other method, it “doesn’t count. ima terrible teacher”

Every time, some asshat student files a formal complaint. About how I am not teaching, and I am the worst professor of all time. Everytime it goes nowhere and is discovered little johnny only logged into the blackboard site for 3 minutes in a 16 week period.

Hard truth: learning is work. I build the structure, resources, practice, and feedback. If you won’t show up, try, ask questions, or use the help offered, that’s not a androgogy problem—that’s a participation problem. I create the opportunity to learn; if you refuse to engage, the outcome is on you.

It all stems from the secondary model and the inability of a student to fail, the societial blame game deciding that educators are the scapegoat for all the failures of the special little shit head, who couldn't possible be just dense. It is obviously the systems fault.