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After the chaos of spring 2020, \u201cfaculty were desperate not to repeat the experience of spring quarter,\u201d said Dr. Penelope Moon, director of digital learning & engagement at UW Bothell. \u201cTeaching remotely is not the same as teaching online.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moon has been leading the team that was charged with helping faculty become more proficient in online teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June 2020, the Digital Learning & Engagement team launched \u201cTeaching Online 101.\u201d The first offering attracted 107 participants from UW Bothell. By August, the course was offered again to more than 300 faculty from all three UW campuses. As of July 2021, the course had enrolled more than 800 people across the UW, with another 50 enrolled this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the pandemic, said Moon, conversations about online teaching were typically about asynchronous learning, which refers to courses in which students engage each other and complete assignments outside of real-time sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the ways the pandemic complicated things is that it shifted the conversation around online learning.\u201d she said. \u201cMany faculty did not have time to develop the skills needed to teach asynchronously, so \u2018online\u2019 came to include more than asynchronous instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur job is to help faculty approach online teaching in an intentional way using intentional design. It\u2019s about thinking about the needs of the online learner from the beginning and then choosing pedagogies and design strategies to meet those needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Film it fast <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cExtracting DNA is a show-don\u2019t-tell aesthetic,\u201d said Marc Studer, electronic media producer for Digital Learning & Engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studer was classified as essential personnel a few weeks into the pandemic when it became clear that STEM faculty would need to film their experiments for students to replicate. At the height of the pandemic, Studer was doing two videos per week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marc Studer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The frenetic pace meant some techniques had to be refined to save time. \u201cAt the first video, we brought all our equipment. On the second video, we left our big lights behind. Also thrown overboard were fancy graphics, sequences and animation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studer and Moon shared their lessons learned on video production during a pandemic in the April 28 issue of Educause<\/a>. In that piece, Studer wrote: \u201cThe changing conditions and constraints I encountered during COVID-19 empowered me, in a way, to reevaluate assumptions and long-held practices and emerge from the crisis with a process that is more streamlined, flexible, scalable and iterative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he learned, \u201cquantity has a quality all its own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studer also credits the STEM faculty for being highly skilled educators who can teach on camera. \u201cIt\u2019s been an awesome chance to learn new stuff,\u201d Studer said. \u201cYou learn your craft by doing your craft.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with ever more new technologies on the horizon, he said, the future of is going to be \u201ceven more exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet me online<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Over in Gathertown, students are assembling at tables for a virtual study hall. They work together on assignments and chat with the professors when they wander over to connect with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gathertown<\/a> is a digital tool used by Dr. Rachel Scherr, assistant professor of physics, and Dr. Matthew Gliboff, assistant teaching professor of physics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gathertown, an online classroom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scherr and Gliboff co-taught introductory physics on campus in autumn 2020. When the pandemic struck, they made the decision to move to an asynchronous format. \u201cThat\u2019s really helpful for accessibility,\u201d said Gliboff. \u201cIt meant students could navigate around work and family responsibilities and every other challenge \u2026 because it was 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working with Todd Conaway, instructional designer, they evaluated various tools. They also tried the usual tactics, with varying degrees of success. \u201cStaring at a computer doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Gliboff said. \u201cBreakout rooms just turned into break time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Added Scherr, \u201cMost students don\u2019t enjoy a Zoom class with 100 people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ways to connect<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The team found ways to incorporate some synchronous channels such as Gathertown, where students could choose to attend and collaborate. Students rated their experience with Gathertown as one of their favorite elements of the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also used public videos to incorporate into coursework, along with videos that had been previously recorded by other physics faculty. And they incorporated Ed discussion<\/a>, a threaded discussion board that includes tools for posing questions and sharing information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe only mandated a certain amount of involvement, so students had the ability to collaborate through whatever channels were best for them,\u201d said Gliboff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scherr said the remote learning experiences from the last year are helpful to both faculty and students. \u201cOne of the possible benefits of a year like this is that we are now going to teach this course in a hybrid format, and I think students know what that is now,\u201d said Scherr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both faculty say they are looking forward to seeing students on campus again, even if it is just part time. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot I really enjoy (about teaching online), but I don\u2019t like teaching people I don’t know. I don’t like teaching little black squares \u2026 that just really saps my teaching energy,\u201d said Scherr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, Gliboff said, \u201cthere\u2019s a whole graduating class of physics majors that I\u2019ve never met.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In autumn quarter, he and Scherr plan to teach using a hybrid format. \u201cIt\u2019s secretly not that different from what we were doing before, except I think students will be more willingly engaged with the content,\u201d Scherr said. \u201cBut I think there are things that we did last year that are really worth keeping and worth continuing to offer to students as an option.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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