Help me figure out my optimal online teaching strategy... details inside.
So my university, being in Australia, is continuing our offering of online classes, perhaps though most of 2021 even. I totally approve - we've technically eradicated COVID here and we are saving the space for distanced versions of classes that have a higher priority for F2F. (I say eradicated, but we're all just one quarantine breach away from another cluster unless we keep up precautions.)
But that leads to some questions about how I want to teach online now that I can think about it — I taught last semester in the midst of things, managing to switch from in person to live Zoom pretty seamlessly with my postgrad classes, but that was emergency online teaching. I think I could do even better.
One key point is the structure. Last semester, I rolled into a 3 hour live (scheduled) Zoom that was basically the same as I would do with my in person seminars. In the meantime, this semester, there was a bit more consensus about format and that favored 1.5 hours pre-recorded and 1.5 hours as a scheduled live Zoom workshop / tutorial. (I got all my main teaching done last semester.)
So, not my favorite, but I can do this format if need be. But... apparently the feedback from students was that they HATED the recorded format and didn't like the work getting flipped back onto them. (I also saw this dislike in my informal reviews from last semester, with people who did my colleague's recorded lectures but then watched mine for exam review... Yes, I am bragging on myself a bit here, but mostly the same material with a different format for comparison.)
TLDR: when teaching adults online, what do you love/like/accept/dislike/hate? I've got some ideas after taking an online sake training for fun (here if you're interested), so that was a great example from the learner's side that online live can work, but I may have idiosyncratic preferences...
Anyway, thank you in advance! |
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