Jorj Onzo wrote:Excellent point.
Teaching a one-hour class takes me about twice as long. Moving a toon to highsec when there's a practical involved (long), looking at the calendar to see what classes haven't been taught recently (medium), scheduling/AARing (short), answering questions post-class (depends, can take a while). That's not counting time spent doing / revamping my class notes, as these can be used for more than one class.
And I draw the line at making slides, cause I don't like them and they take too long.
I live in a C5, so if I were to count the opportunity cost in lost ISKies, I don't think the E-Uni donations, or student tips, could compensate for lost bearing. Even in our 0.0 space empire where the isk-making opportunities are OK though not spectacular (by C5 wh standards), we're still looking at 200-300m for a couple of hours.
I'm not in the Uni, so the management can't give me fancy titles or medals in lieu of payment (not that they would do it: one guy pointed out I'm not even on the guest lecturer list!

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Neither do I use classes as a recruiting tool, both because the average student attending classes is a bit too low-SP for us (though that might change in the future, we're not there yet), and - mostly! - because that would be unethical.
Bottom line: people teach because they want to. It yields no tangible benefit, in terms of ISK, kills, or e-reputation. I don't think we can really change that, nor should we.
Jorj Onzo wrote: Ok the only other noob idea I have is make the students take on more of the work load, and in that way help the teachers. But that's probably already being done in some form and has security risks that the present title system prevents.
The best way students can help the E-Uni teaching staff, in my opinion, is to step up and start teaching classes on those topics that they know something about.
Even very basic stuff, like "how to make a little ISK in highsec by mining, without getting mobbed by CODE. and WTs". Or "how to not get scammed". Doesn't have to be "the definitive treatise on [insert broad topic here]"
Classes being taught helps the Uni as a whole, so the rest of the faculty can teach a broader range of classes.