…I have wrestled with the ideas of teaching online in real-time while making videos, giving lectures, creating assignments, and going synchronous or asynchronous. It is as if I am going…
…experience. Alternatives to Recorded Lectures I started making recorded lectures for content that I wanted students to learn in their asynchronous time. But, I started to get tired of listening…
…videos at the time and via the technology that works best for them. One student might like to watch your lecture on their phone while they take the bus home…
…during class. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. al. 2017). One of the most common downsides of…
…need to be together in the same physical space?” If you are simply going to lecture at students, they do not need to be in the same physical space as…
Oftentimes, putting a brick-and-mortar course online begins by preserving the readings and assessments, and then considering adaptations to replace all or some of the “live” elements of interactive lectures. Easily…
As I sat in a lecture attended by all first-year students at our college, I noticed the scale of a troubling trend: the rise of “snapnotes.” Snapnotes are what I…
Starting a lecture can be a challenge: getting everyone seated, attentive, and ready to move forward with the content can take several minutes. I have found that sometimes it feels…
