Online Teaching and Learning Series

Due to the COVID19 health crisis I am putting out a series of videos talking about how tips and concepts of online teaching and learning.

If you are just getting started into teaching online, there are some basic modes that might be easiest to start with, especially if you have prior experience teaching your content facetoface. This means you are practiced in conducting class and know the content to be delivered. So it makes sense that your first use of teaching online get as close as possible to your classroom approach.

Synchronous vs. asynchronous
One of the concepts you will have to think deeply about when porting your classroom learning is the timing of learning. Classroom learning happens on a schedule (mostly), and information is delivered at the same time to all of your students. In online and mobile learning environments, information is consumed at the students convenience, and thus conversations and work is happening at different times for different students.

This concept may drive some disruption to your teaching as you move to an online format, things like discussions or activities may need to be rethought as it might not be possible or feasible to facilitate scheduled class, and as you will find out, you may still need to create an asynchronous version of our class on top of your scheduled synchronous lesson anyway.

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