Want To Teach Online? Change The Way You Think About It

A growing number of colleges and universities are announcing the cancellation of face-to-face teaching for what remains of the academic year, and continuing instead through online teaching. Given the technology available, this need not be especially problematic. But in practice, it is, and in many cases means the 2020 academic year is lost.

Things didn’t have to end like this: Learning online is not impossible, but will be difficult unless we start looking at things differently. Why is it a problem for teaching to continue through the internet? The reasons are many, and there are no immediate solutions — which does not mean we shouldn’t try. (...)

fonte: forbes.com/ retirada em 7 de abril 2020