Written by: Tricia Bisoux
Published by: BizEd, AACSB International
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: THE PANDEMIC FORCED professors to scramble to master effective online teaching strategies, while platform providers hurried to upgrade and deploy new features. Those who adapted most quickly to the new reality? Those who already were versed in delivering online education.
We asked several educators to share the best practices for online teaching that they developed—some long before the crisis struck. Below, we highlight advice from two professors at the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business in Iowa City, who had been teaching online before the coronavirus arrived; and several administrators from Grenoble School of Management in France, who have helped the school transition to a “hyflex” course delivery model. We also talked to Pooja Sankar, who in 2009 launched the online learning community Piazza, based in Palo Alto, California; today the platform hosts a network of 5 million learners from 2,000 universities worldwide.