Connecting the Dots

04/07/20 • 29 min

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Last week, Kieran and Dan talked about the value of virtual learning communities to help students and faculty feel engaged and supported. Now we're shifting from theory to practice, sharing some of the things we’ve tried and continue to use in class to help foster learning communities. Listeners, help us make this a conversation by sharing your hits and your misses, asking for suggestions, and brainstorming solutions to challenges others face on our Wired Ivy LinkedIn Group, or by tweeting us @wiredivy.

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A Quick Pivot

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The novel coronavirus pandemic is disrupting families, communities, and workplaces everywhere. Famously, it’s disrupting higher education as well. Because for the foreseeable future we cannot gather in groups like classrooms, professors and students involuntarily had to move online. Emergency remote higher education is just that — a quick pivot. Still, we expect many professors adapting to this new reality will welcome lessons from best online practices.
In this episode we’ll hear from Wired Ivy’s own Kieran Lindsey, who has been connected to online higher education as a graduate student, instructor, and program director, has seven questions new-to-online faculty should ask before switching their courses to remote instruction.