As more and more colleges pivot to online classes on short notice, learning experts have some surprising advice for educators: Do less. 'Your class is not the highest priority of their or your life right now,' one professor says.
Sean Michael Morris says that in this unprecedented time,"Recognizing that we're also human, we also have to figure this out together is incredibly important. The idea of being able to just port what you're doing in a classroom into an online environment has its own problems. But trying to do that in the midst of a pandemic is another problem altogether."
On one level, Panicgogy means understanding students' practicalities. Some only have smartphones. Some have family responsibilities. Some have been sent home and need to find a new place to live, new job, and new health insurance.
Robin DeRosa is director of the Open Learning and Teaching Collaborative at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She says,"I think the first thing is we arebuilding online courses or converting your face to face courses to online learning. Really, what we're doing is we are trying to extend a sense of care to our students and trying to build a community that's going to be able to work together to get through the learning challenges that we have.
"So if people think that in three to five days they're going to rejigger their course and build some super amazing online platform, that's probably unlikely to happen," she says."The idea here is really to help our students feel included in the process of rethinking education for a challenging time.
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