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Gender Bias will Still Happen in Remote Teaching
Remember BBC Dad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=Mh4f9AYRCZY&feature=emb_logo In 2017, Professor Robert E. Kelley was doing an interview with the BBC when his 4-year-old daughter popped into his office for a visit. Seconds later, a little sibling comes zooms in on a walker, and then Mom scrambles into retrieve the kiddos. Kelley doesn't stand up, prompting the world to... Continue Reading →
Exhausted? Remote meetings might be to blame.
Are you an extrovert who used to enjoy face-to-face meetings but now find yourself exhausted after a day of video meetings? Wondering why they take so much more out of you than do typical F2F efforts? Have you started showing up, logging on, and tuning out? Considered just running a loop of yourself looking like you... Continue Reading →
Teaching Them How to be Online Students: Suggestions for Lessons and Assignments
This blog post is part of a longer series to help you quickly design an effective online course. If you began with the Start Here post, you'll have already written your syllabus, chosen your materials and assignments, and built your online shell. Next, we turn to designing lessons and activities. Typically, I recommend designing these... Continue Reading →
Building Your Online Classroom Shell: Final Steps
If you’ve been following this series of posts about building an online course by design, you’ve framed your course, selected your materials, chosen your assignments, written your syllabus, established the frame of your online course, added your lessons, and added your activities. This post helps you add the final touches. Has it felt hard and... Continue Reading →
A Reminder of Who is Hurt by Insisting that Students Share Images of their Personal Lives
If you require that students attend live classes digitally, you are putting their privacy at risk. The data that you demand is stolen by tech companies, the class can be terrorized by racists and other kinds of bigots, and the images that you require can be captured by others and circulated online forever. Students and... Continue Reading →
Building Your Online Classroom Shell: Level 3: Lessons and Assignments
If you’ve been following this series of posts about building an online course by design, you’ve framed your course, selected your materials, chosen your assignments, written your syllabus, and established the frame of your online course. In this post, you will be adding your lessons (the material you want them to engage) and the activities... Continue Reading →
Building Your Online Classroom Shell: Level 1 and Level 2
If you’ve been following this series of posts about building an online course by design, you’ve framed your course, selected your materials, chosen your assignments, and written your syllabus. In a typical F2F course, you'd be making copies of your syllabus and writing your assignments. For an online course, it's time to build the shell... Continue Reading →
A Plan for Saving the Fall Semester
By now, virtually everyone has canceled school for the remainder of the year. Some colleges have already announced that summer courses, many of which begin in just a month, will already be taught online; the announcement allows us time to do more than pivot to remote teaching but to build, even if hurriedly, online-by-design courses.... Continue Reading →
Should we assign grades in a pandemic?
It's been the question filling up faculty listservs: What should we do about grades? I can see the variety of perspectives here (except the one about law schools and med schools demanding letter grades--they will figure something out if we refuse to give letter grades). BUT--let's be honest for a moment. The average GPA of... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 