online synchronous or asynchronous

Teaching synchronously? Asynchronously? Which is really better?

https://thesocietypages.org/teaching/2020/04/10/teaching-synchronously-asynchronously-which-is-really-better/
Are you going to teach synchronously or asynchronously? What’s better for your students? What’s better for you?
in the synchronous online classroom you can readily help students remember why they registered for your course to begin with, which can be very grounding. 
The most popular reason for choosing this option for your teaching is flexibility regarding when work is done. Asynchronous classes have pedagogical benefits too. They allow students to literally “pause” your class when they are confused or need a break, something only possible in their dreams for in-person and synchronous online classes, which go at a pace not set by them at all. Also, the technology requirements to take in an asynchronous class are lower, and this is therefore more accessible to more students.

An example of “doing both”

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How to Reconnect With Students and Strengthen Your Remote Course

APRIL 09, 2020

https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Reconnect-With-Students/248461

how to structure a supportive learning environment, and how that might apply to an emergency situation such as this, where many students struggle to stay focused, or find it difficult to learn with unfamiliar systems and technologies.

  • Normalize the abnormal.
  • Create an online presence.
  • Explain, and then explain some more.
  • Take advantage of the technology.
  • Foster community.

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more on synchronous vs asynchronous in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=synchronous

academia and pandemic

Faculty Members Fear Pandemic Will Weaken Their Ranks

APRIL 09, 2020

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Members-Fear-Pandemic/248476

Covid-19 is being described as both a crisis and an opportunity for higher education. But how “opportunity” is defined depends on where one stands in the academic hierarchy. While some hope the pandemic provides a chance to reverse troubling trends toward the adjunctification and casualization of academic labor, administrators may see it as a different sort of opportunity, to realign institutional priorities or exert greater authority over their faculties.

statement by the Tenure for the Common Good group offers 20 recommendations for administrators, including that they “resist using the current crisis as an opportunity to exploit contingency further by hiring more contingent faculty into precarious positions.”

As faculty members are asked to take on greater teaching, advising, and administrative responsibilities, faculty development and retention “will be more important to institutional resilience — survival — than ever before,” Kiernan Mathews, executive director and principal investigator of the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, wrote on Twitter.

To DePaola, the pandemic doesn’t pose new problems to academe as much as it magnifies existing ones. “Everything was held together with gum and paper clips, and coronavirus came and just sort of knocked it all down at once,” DePaola said. “I think none of the crises that this virus is causing are new. They’re just accelerated greatly. And the contradictions of the system are heightened all at once for people to see.”

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The Small World Network of College Classes: Implications for Epidemic Spread on a University Campus

https://osf.io/6kuet/

2020-04-11

Beginning in March 2020, many universities shifted to on-line instruction to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, and many now face the difficult decision of whether and how to resume in-person instruction. This article uses complete transcript data from a medium-sized residential American university to map the two-node network that connects students and classes through course enrollments. We show that the enrollment networks of the university and its liberal arts college are “small-world” networks, characterized by high clustering and short average path lengths. In both networks, at least 98% of students are in the main component, and most students can reach each other in two steps. Removing very large courses slightly elongates path lengths, but does not disconnect these networks or eliminate all alternative paths between students. Although students from different majors tend to be clustered together, gateway courses and distributional requirements create cross-major integration. We close by discussing the implications of course networks for understanding potential epidemic spread of infection on university campuses.

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qualitative research in online environment

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/557378281559541/

A Facebook group thread:

Qualitative researchers: Does anyone have any general pointers on conducting qualitative work in this environment other than doing interviews or focus groups over Zoom? Example: I (normally) do a lot of participant observation work. Where and how will I do this or do it as well as I have done it?

At this moment, my focus is all on teaching. But if this situation becomes more prolonged, I need to figure out how to keep the research going too.

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Qualitative Data Analysis Tools

https://libguides.mit.edu/anthro/qda

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more on qualitative research in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=qualitative+research

prepare for online fall semester

6 Steps to Prepare for an Online Fall Semester

https://www.chronicle.com/article/6-Steps-to-Prepare-for-an/248463

APRIL 08, 2020

Here are some steps colleges should take to help prepare for fall 2020 and beyond:

  • Survey students now to find out how many would decline to participate in an online-only fall 2020 academic term.
  • Rethink large lecture courses if fall instruction is online.
  • Leverage teaching resources and expertise across colleges.
  • Plan for a multiyear impact.
  • Be transparent and engage the student and family communities.
  • When it comes to equity, walk the walk.

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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning

Designing an Online Lesson Using the 5 Es Instructional Model

https://catlintucker.com/2020/03/designing-an-online-lesson/

the Hyperdoc website and check out the templates and already-created hyperdocs available for teachers. Lisa HighfillKelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis are the authors of The Hyperdoc Handbook and have created a website full of free resources for teachers.

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more on instructional design and education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=instructional+design+and+education

Bloom’s Taxonomy and VR

Please have recording through my Quest goggles; EngageVR does NOT allow simultaneous login through goggles and PC client

MediaSpace / Kaltura has several shortcomings, this is why I am offering you a parallel YouTube recording

Please have also my highlights:

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Announcement

https://app.engagevr.io/events/ZJa7A/view

Mon, Apr 13th, 2020 at 12:00 PM (CDT)

A chance to join Steve Bambury as he shares his Bloom’s Taxonomy and VR project

Hosted By Steve Bambury

After another break (due to Steve fracturing his arm), the one and only #CPDinVR events are back with not one but TWO opportunities to join Steve as he shares his Bloom’s Taxonomy and VR project

Debuted at the GESS Conference in Dubai in February, the presentation recounts the lengthy history of this project, which included contributions from Steven Sato, Alex Johnson and the late, great Chris Long.

This new version will delve deeper into the specific levels of Bloom’s and the types of VR applications which can be used to engage student skills at each level.

There will also be an opportunity for Q+A with Steve and some of the usual #CPDinVR fun and games at the end of the event…

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more on EngageVR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=engagevr

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