Montreal student tries to contact his professor only to learn that he's dead

A Montreal student who tried to contact the professor who taught his online class this month found out that his professor was actually dead, CTV News reports.

Aaron Ansuini, a student at Concordia University and was attending a virtual Canadian history course this semester when he make an odd discovery.

"When I was looking up his name to get his email address I pulled up his obituary," Ansuini said.

When he looked up the course's professor, Francois Marc Gagnon, to ask a question, he discovered that the professor had passed away years ago.

The university never told students who signed up for the professor's prerecorded classes, and that Gagnon had died two years earlier.

After Prof. Gagnon's passing, the school continued to use his prerecorded lectures as material for students. Ansuini said this information never given to students signing up for the course.

"There were two professors listed, but there was no indication that one of them was not available or one of them had passed," he told CTV News.

"There was really no indication whatsoever," he continued.

Ansuini tweeted what he had just learned about his professor.

"HI EXCUSE ME, I just found out the the prof for this online course I'm taking died in 2019 and he's technically still giving classes since he’s literally my prof for this course and I’m learning from lectures recorded before his passing ..........it’s a great class but WHAT," one of his tweets read.

Ansuini said he regretted he  "won't get to thank him for making all of this information so engaging and accessible."

He asked his university, "Do you think students just don't give a s*** about the people they spend months learning from?"

Concordia has since reportedly said it has updated Prof. Gagnon's biography in the course information.

The incident is a strange scenario in the "new normal" of virtual education due to the coronavirus pandemic.