Education in the Time of Pandemic
Guiding Questions for Course Continuity Planning
Submitted by John T. on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 08:02Tags:
If you are reading this, we are assuming that you have already visited the University's Pandemic Flu site and are now looking for ideas for making your course social distance ready. The following questions will help instructors determine their course continuity plans. Instructors are encouraged to post plans here on the TLE website.
How do you plan on communicating with students?
How do you plan to deal with increased student absences and/or instructor absence?
How will students engage course materials?
How do you plan on assessing student work?
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DoIT: Campus Tools to Work Remotely
Submitted by Jeff Bohrer on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 12:08Tags:
The DoIT Help Desk has just released a guide to basic tools at UW-Madison that are helpful for working remotely:
This document points to resources to assist students, faculty and staff in working remotely. Topics addressed include communication, file storage and sharing, instant messaging, and security.
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Nursing Faculty Recommend Video Capture of Undergraduate Lecture Courses
Submitted by Gale Barber on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 19:58Tags:
Reasons for faculty decision to video capture lectures in required undergraduate courses and process for accomplishing the requests and making the lectures available to students are presented.
Faculty in the School of Nursing have recommended that the large undergraduate lecture courses for fall semester be video captured. The recommendation was made primarily because of the sequenced curriculum for the nursing major. If a student gets out of sequence in the major, he/she can be delayed a full year.
Start Gradually to Make Your Transition to Social Distance Mode Easier
Submitted by Jeff Henriques on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 12:58Tags:
There are a number of low-tech solutions that can be implemented as instructors and departments look to make course material accessible for students who are unable to attend class meetings. While high-tech solutions like streaming video can be impressive, the steep learning curve along with the time and the resources necessary for such an implementation can easily overwhelm an already overloaded faculty.
A number of suggestions have emerged during the ongoing conversations about pandemic flu planning. One point raised at a recent ITC meeting was the lesson learned from Distance Education that video solutions should not necessarily be the first response to delivering course material to students. Audio recording is a much less intensive and less technically challenging solution. With most new laptop computers having built in microphones an instructor could simply start to record as they present their class lecture.
The Components of Your Lecture
Submitted by Ron Cramer on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 08:14Tags:
The words "lecture capture" have become too closely associated with full-motion video capture using equipment that has been set up and configured for recording everything that happens in the classroom. Rather than talking about lecture capture, I think it is more useful to talk about sharing your lecture content and to think of the lecture in terms of its components. Ask yourself this question: what are the components of your face-to-face lecture?
