Institutions mustn’t waste the lessons learned during the height of the pandemic about the powerful role that multimedia can play in learning and teaching.
Lecturers felt unprepared for the shift to remote teaching, saying they had neither received nor sought relevant training.
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Training for academics needs to be timely, specific, relevant and appropriate for the technology being implemented.
Universities must do more than just offer online learning: they must make sure lecturers know how to adapt to the technology.
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Philippe Masset, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO); Jean-Philippe Weisskopf, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO), and Mélanie Bonvin, Haute école spécialisée de Suisse occidentale (HES-SO)
Real-life experience suggests that game-based learning (GBL) techniques can be useful in reducing student anxiety toward technical and/or abstract concepts and in increasing class involvement.
Distance learning has its advantages, but requires the correct technology and respect for intellectual property rights.
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Distance learning requires not only the right technologies, but also policies that respect intellectual property and personal data. Open educational resources are an approach that is gathering support.
Indigenous people with experience guiding culturally safe talking circles in an online environment can work with students to nurture safe virtual spaces.
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Student respondents to a survey discussed memories of historical trauma of infectious disease and displacement, financial hardship related to Alberta tuition hikes and mental health concerns.
How can lecturers avoid one of the classic syndromes of remote teaching: a screen of blank student webcams?
This isn’t the first time America’s schoolchildren have studied remotely – and Chicago’s 1937 ‘radio school’ experiment shows how technology can fill the gap during a crisis.
Life online isn’t ideal, but it is manageable.
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While providing access to digital technology is important, it won’t even the digital playing field. If teachers can embrace all students’ digital interests as opportunities for learning, it would help.
Too much time screen time can lead to lower self-esteem.
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The stress of having children do distance learning at home during the pandemic is linked to an increase in alcohol consumption among parents, a new survey finds.
Some colleges may have to scramble to make plans to keep international students enrolled.
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