I’m preparing my fall grad course for remote learning. I asked my GTAs about what worked, what didn’t, & what other professors should know as they design courses for possible online courses experience. A thread hope other grads will add to (I‘ll RT public tweets & anonymize DMs)
As we know, Zoom Fatigue is real. While Zoom was noted as useful & sometimes needed the whole 3 hr class time, it didn’t always. And breaks must still happen, just like in a F2F course.
Also worth remembering that screen time goes way up in the pivot online — where possible, having offline assignments (commonplace book, etc) that don’t need the screen are vital.
Even so, reading online together is useful. One of my colleagues used Perusall, & it was noted as something they liked & would like to use again — inside jokes proliferate in that space, etc.
One professor had students photograph handwritten reflections & post them to the LMS — not something I would have thought of, but it was reported as a good screen-mitigation strategy.
@trickyholly reports her students liked having podcasts in the mix for nonvisual experience (make sure there’s a transcript available!)
@kawaiilovesarah confirms that discussion board posts aren’t really intuitively effective in mimicking conversation:
And a counter in support of discussion board space from @alextheknitter
A note from @poetinbabylon not to dismiss the possibility of fully-asynchronous courses, depending on your pedagogical goals:
