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From a Special Issue of Educational Leadership titled A New Reality: Getting Remote Learning Right Catlin R. Tucker The keys are prioritizing community and designing student-centered lessons. Teachers who have taught exclusively offline in a traditional school setting may find the transition to teaching online daunting and foreign. As educators navigate this new…
A new resource is available to faculty. It is an asynchronous, self-paced online course called “Teaching with Moodle”, which has been developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (Pedagogical Counsellor, OAD). Moodle allows teachers to: • upload files such as narrated PowerPoints, videos, jpegs, word, excel, pdfs; • use the Chat and Forum features in order to communicate with students,…
From The Chronicle of Higher Education Whether you’ve taught online a lot or a little, chances are you didn’t enjoy it as much as teaching in person. Maybe you didn’t experience that fizz after a particularly invigorating face-to-face class. Indeed, according to a 2017 Educause survey, only 9 percent of academics prefer to teach “in a…
From The Chronicle of Higher Education By Kevin Gannon When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course? What I learned, however, was that I didn’t need to replicate my face-to-face…
From Profweb, April 27, 2020 A number of technologies have facilitated the transition to alternative methods of teaching. In recent years, these tools have become more user-friendly and accessible to teachers, who are using them to support a blended or fully on-line approach within their teaching practice. Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung are 2 such teachers from Dawson…
From: Faculty Focus April 29, 2020 Article by: Siva priya Santhanam, Ph.D. The transition to online teaching has been partially, if not completely, challenging for faculty teaching in colleges and universities. I am writing this article while reflecting on my own experiences since March 16, 2020, when our university made the decision to move to online teaching….
Message for Faculty who need to refer students for Personal Counselling: All applications for distance counselling, as well as any student centered mental health related inquiries, can be sent to Dawson Personal Counselling: DawsonPersonalCounselling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca. The email is monitored from 9:00-5:00 Mon-Friday and will be responded to within 24 hours of reception…
Originally posted on April 12, 2020 by Katie Martin Collaboration and connection are vital to our academic success as well as our social-emotional well being. They can occur more naturally in our face to face environments which is why we have to be more intentional about creating the conditions…
From: Faculty Focus April 17, 2020 When I was asked to create an online course 20 years ago, I simply transcribed my face-to-face lectures into 10–15 page Word documents that I posted in our LMS. Don’t ask me how my students managed to get through them. I was making the…
Free Webinar from Eric Mazur, Harvard Professor and Co-founder, Perusall: Like many of us, I have had to transition fast to teaching online because of the coronavirus pandemic. This sudden move to online teaching has been a good opportunity for me to rethink my approach to teaching. As you may know,…
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