June 24, 2020 Abdullah Al-Bahrani, PhD, and Rebecca Moryl, PhD COVID-19 has upended normal social connections that develop between students and professors. We are missing the connections that develop through casual interactions in office hours, pre-class discussions, post-class questions, and any other in-person interaction. These social connections are important for student retention, academic development,…
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June 17, 2020 Lisa K. Forbes, PhD Today, faculty are being asked to abruptly expand their teaching practices in ways many of us would never have imagined. For many, teaching online is something they’ve never done and for some, it’s something they never desired to do. I have some experience with digital pedagogy but for…
Mike Yakubovsky Published in ASCD Express A recent LinkedIn study identified the top 10 skills employers are currently looking for in their interns and new hires (Hess, 2019). I looked through it all, and nowhere was there a reference to test-taking ability. What was at the top of the list were soft skills like collaboration, time management,…
Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil Free E-book This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like. Reframing the “problem” of teaching online The impact of information abundance on teaching and learning Complicated vs….
From a Special Issue of Educational Leadership titled A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right Catlin R. Tucker The keys are prioritizing community and designing student-centered lessons. Teachers who have taught exclusively offline in a traditional school setting may find the transition to teaching online daunting and foreign. As educators navigate this new…
A new resource is available to faculty. It is an asynchronous, self-paced online course called “Teaching with Moodle”, which has been developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (Pedagogical Counsellor, OAD). Moodle allows teachers to: • upload files such as narrated PowerPoints, videos, jpegs, word, excel, pdfs; • use the Chat and Forum features in order to communicate with students,…
From The Chronicle of Higher Education Whether you’ve taught online a lot or a little, chances are you didn’t enjoy it as much as teaching in person. Maybe you didn’t experience that fizz after a particularly invigorating face-to-face class. Indeed, according to a 2017 Educause survey, only 9 percent of academics prefer to teach “in a…
From The Chronicle of Higher Education By Kevin Gannon When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course? What I learned, however, was that I didn’t need to replicate my face-to-face…
From Profweb, April 27, 2020 A number of technologies have facilitated the transition to alternative methods of teaching. In recent years, these tools have become more user-friendly and accessible to teachers, who are using them to support a blended or fully on-line approach within their teaching practice. Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung are 2 such teachers from Dawson…
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