I now think we should design courses that are as medium-independent as possible. They'll need to glide btwn physical, online, or hybrid in a week or even day's notice. It's fun, but challenging, to think which courses might look similar, and which would be radically redesigned.https://twitter.com/syardi/status/1253056657740967937 …
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I'm teaching Online Communities this fall which is an easy class for me so brainstorming radical redesign is fun, but this is not scalable for folks teaching multiple classes, new preps, difficult classes to move online, etc. I hope we take a community-oriented approach to this.
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I'd love to hear more ideas about this, because I haven't heard any good ideas about planning a class that can be delivered in multiple different ways, with the ability to switch on a dime, while (a) maintaining educational quality, and (b) not being crazy work for faculty.
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My fall class will be 25-45 students, relatively small. I'm hoping the education/learning experts will guide us, but until then: I'm thinking do away with deadlines? Those seem incompatible with a pandemic. I would grade regularly and reach out to students who are far behind.
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I go back-and-forth on this. I've wanted to switch CS 1 to have less (no?) deadlines for ages. One point from a colleague who pushed back that I think about a lot: deadlines provide important structure for students who are overwhelmed by college (often 1st gen, underrepresented)
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I think Ariely's Predictably Irrational describes an experiment that supports the utility of deadlines *for all students*.
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