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I've been teaching classes online since March. Honestly, even at the best of times it feels like teaching a brick wall. One of the universities has a rule tha
by laurieg 6y ago
I've been teaching classes online since March. Honestly, even at the best of times it feels like teaching a brick wall.
One of the universities has a rule that everyone must have their cameras on at all times, so you end up teaching classes to seas of blank faces. You get no meaningful feedback this way.
One thing I've used which has been useful is Miro [1]. It is a collaborative whiteboard tool. Being able to get a little bit of output from everyone is wonderful. Even just being able to see people's mouse pointers move makers a huge difference.
One of the pluses has been everyone has suddenly got much better at using the universities online learning system (which existed before). General organisation and admin has been streamlined somewhat.
[1] https://miro.com/ https://miro.com/
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- kkylin 6y agoRe cameras, mine is the opposite: a colleague in a different department was told one cannot require that cameras be one. Most students do not volunteer to turn them on, and very few leave their microphones on. No feedback this way either.
- dhimes 6y agoI had to teach online during a weather emergency decades ago(back when you used powerpoint and a RealPlayer product to make movies). No live lectures though- all we had was dial-up so it was all asynchronous. One thing that it seems to me would be very helpful would be an instantaneous feedback channel where you could have premade questions (say, multiple-choice) and ask students to answer them in real time. This would allow you intersperse formative assessment into your lectures more like what happens live. It would go a long way toward helping the class be interactive. They would have to be graded automatically for large classes, of course.