Teaching online

Is online teaching better or worse? As usual for that question, “it’s all a trade-off”. We believe that many people tried to directly translate in-person strategies to online, and teaching suffered. In some ways, this even revealed the flaws of in-person pedagogy (remove some interaction and not much is left other than an info-dump).

Exercise

Using HackMD, brainstorm advantages and disadvantages of online and in-person teaching. For each disadvantage of each, think of ways to compensate.

We won’t elaborate more here right now - most of the rest of the course somehow relates to online teaching!
We will see many techniques which compensate for some of the disadvantages in the section tools of teaching.
Workshop organization will discuss new collaborative opportunities with online teaching.

Teaching online

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