Greg Niemeyer in CalMatters on Online Education
As the world deals with the inevitable effects of COVID-19, California prepares to embark on an enormous unexpected experiment in remote learning. As the pandemic of COVID-19 continues, the education of many is significantly affected, especially those of low-income families. Greg Niemeyer, an associate professor of media innovation at UC Berkeley, has prepared a video with tips and recommendations to help those transition to digital learning.
From article:
Greg Niemeyer, an associate professor of media innovation at UC Berkeley, made a video to help colleagues struggling with the transition to digital learning. His top tips: Don’t be nervous. And remember that you may need to play with the format to keep students engaged—a lesson Niemeyer learned when he moved one of his own classes online.
“We’d meet for three hours in person, and that seems to be a fun thing to do because you get to chat and take breaks,” Niemeyer said. “But a three-hour online class is dreadful because people just stare at a screen and sit in a chair for three hours.”
Quiet study space becomes a luxury, Niemeyer said, when students are huddled with family or packed into dorms with roommates who are no longer leaving to attend class. And some lecturers don’t have offices from which to teach their classes.
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