6 Steps to Prepare for an Online Fall Semester
https://www.chronicle.com/article/6-Steps-to-Prepare-for-an/248463
John Villasenor 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
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning
by Charles Hodges, Stephanie Moore, Barb Lockee, Torrey Trust and Aaron Bond Published: Friday, March 27, 2020
https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning
Moving instruction online can enable the flexibility of teaching and learning anywhere, anytime, but the speed with which this move to online instruction is expected to happen is unprecedented and staggering.
“Online learning” will become a politicized term that can take on any number of meanings depending on the argument someone wants to advance.
Online learning carries a stigma of being lower quality than face-to-face learning, despite research showing otherwise. These hurried moves online by so many institutions at once could seal the perception of online learning as a weak option
Researchers in educational technology, specifically in the subdiscipline of online and distance learning, have carefully defined terms over the years to distinguish between the highly variable design solutions that have been developed and implemented: distance learning, distributed learning, blended learning, online learning, mobile learning, and others. Yet an understanding of the important differences has mostly not diffused beyond the insular world of educational technology and instructional design researchers and professionals.
Online learning design options (moderating variables)
Typical planning, preparation, and development time for a fully online university course is six to nine months before the course is delivered. Faculty are usually more comfortable teaching online by the second or third iteration of their online courses.
In contrast to experiences that are planned from the beginning and designed to be online, emergency remote teaching (ERT) is a temporary shift of instructional delivery to an alternate delivery mode due to crisis circumstances. It involves the use of fully remote teaching solutions for instruction or education that would otherwise be delivered face-to-face or as blended or hybrid courses and that will return to that format once the crisis or emergency has abated.
A full-course development project can take months when done properly. The need to “just get it online” is in direct contradiction to the time and effort normally dedicated to developing a quality course. Online courses created in this way should not be mistaken for long-term solutions but accepted as a temporary solution to an immediate problem.
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More on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning
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South Korea winning the fight against coronavirus using big-data and AI
https://www.thedailystar.net/online/news/south-korea-winning-the-fight-against-coronavirus-using-big-data-and-ai-1880737
South Korea is using the analysis, information and references provided by this integrated data — all different real-time responses and information produced by the platform are promptly conveyed to people with different AI-based applications.
Whenever someone is tested positive for COVID-19, all the people in the vicinity are provided with the infected person’s travel details, activities, and commute maps for the previous two weeks through mobile notifications sent as a push system.
