A university professor of mathematics has discovered the difficult way in which silence is not always golden.
After giving a two-hour Zoom lecture, Professor Dong Wang of Singapore National University soon realized that none of his students had heard a word because his microphone had been turned off, local Independent reported. .
Wang then asked questions from the 20 students who actually stayed connected to the online course throughout – and only received crickets.
“Can’t we finish our course?” he asked.
Finally, a few students spoke and told him that he was dumb all the time.
“We can’t hear anything from you from 6:08,” said a student prof.
“From what?” Wang asked the student, who confirmed the time. “I mean, how long have you heard?”
One student replied that he heard a little at first, at 6 pm and nothing else at 6:08 pm, as the screen froze.
A shaky Wang then told the class that he would repeat the entire lecture another time.
Azusa Chan, one of the students, told the media that the teacher was inexplicably disabled.
“The students tried all sorts of things to get his attention, moving and even calling his phone number. However, he did not answer and continued with the lesson “, said the student.
“The number of participants decreased over time, because students could not contact Prof. And had no other remedies. What you see here are over 20 students who patiently waited two hours for the teacher to return, ”Chan added.
The student explained that Wang was doing the whole lesson on an iPad, “so you can expect a lot of things to go wrong with such a setup.”
“It simply came to our notice then [sic] his phone next to him whenever he gives a lecture, so that we can call him in case of emergency, ”said Chan.