The purpose of a fasyncronous session is. It shouldn't be for face to face classes, and it shouldn’t be for on line classes. If we had the luxury of time in person with our students, then we should be doing things that are active in those in those sessions. How do you respond to people who are uncomfortable about on line syncrones or asynchrenes just not being as effective as face to face learning?
Maria Andersen shares about how learning is not a spectator sport on episode 177 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I feel like we’ve made online learning really transactional.
— Maria Andersen
We’ve taken the joy and excitement out of learning.
— Maria Andersen
The world is not as cut and dried as the problems we see in text.
— Maria Andersen
You don’t actually learn until you engage with it.
— Maria Andersen
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