Concordia University says lectures from dead professor were ‘teaching tool’
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MONTREAL — Concordia University says there should have been no confusion about who was teaching an online class after a student said he was surprised to discover the professor delivering the video lectures had died in 2019.
Aaron Ansuini, a student at the Montreal university, wrote in a series of recent posts on Twitter that he enjoyed the lectures by Francois-Marc Gagnon, who he assumed was the professor of his online art history class.
Ansuini wrote that he searched for Gagnon’s email address in order to ask the professor a question but instead found an obituary.
University spokeswoman Vannina Maestracci says the course listing, as well as communications with students, made it clear that the class was being taught by a different instructor and Gagnon’s lectures were an added teaching tool.
