Written by: Steven Mintz
Published by: Inside Higher Ed
MBA News Digest Comment: While the article’s focus is on undergraduate teaching and learning, there are many takeaways for graduate faculty and students.
Extracted Content: For all that’s lost when faculty and students interact remotely, something is gained in well-designed, highly interactive online classes that feature personalized adaptive courseware; online tutorials; synchronous interactive lectures with frequent polls, surveys, questions and answers, and whiteboard sessions; and breakout groups.
Remember: for students who sit in the back rows of an auditorium, every large face-to-face lecture class is a distance ed course.
If we see remote learning as part of a permanent restructuring of how higher education is delivered, rather than as a stop-gap response to an emergency, we need to address the four horsemen of the online apocalypse: