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My father is a 65 year old professor and he now loves digital teaching. He’s terrible with computers, he single-finger types (despite all my attempts to help hi
by jbob2000 6y ago
My father is a 65 year old professor and he now loves digital teaching. He’s terrible with computers, he single-finger types (despite all my attempts to help him improve over the years), and still loves it.
His college has him pre-recording lectures, which the students can watch the following day (and can rewatch them). He doesn’t have to travel, doesn’t have to be “on” that day to teach, and doesn’t have to deal with managing students. He just sits down in front of his laptop and gives his presentation.
He interacts with his students more, it’s way easier to field questions from people over the course of a day, as they all watch the lecture, than it is to try to force out some questions with the leftover time at the end of a lecture.
He was definitely looking to retire before covid, but I sense a renewed passion as he’s finally discovered the digital frontier.
- a-nikolaev 6y agoNice story. It can go either way, I think, depending on the courses you teach, how you re-structure them for teaching remotely, and how the college helps you with it. This is a good example of changing things for the better! On the other hand, I think, certain courses and disciplines that require university facilities (experimental labs) or more immediate individual instruction are hard to do fully remotely.
- ghaff 6y ago>certain courses and disciplines that require university facilities (experimental labs) My sense is that, by and large, they're not being done remotely at the grad level. The schools I'm familiar with also have undergrads back in limited numbers in part so that they can take care of courses that have to be done physically.