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This wholesale leap into digital education has also reaped surprising benefits for learning, says NUS’ Chris McMorran, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Japanese Studies.
Every week I read about another university in the United States
forced to abandon in-person instruction due to a sudden rise in
coronavirus cases: UNC-Chapel Hill, Notre Dame, James Madison.
File photo of NUS students attending a lecture in 2018.
This sudden change of direction has taken a toll on students, who are now restricted to remote instruction and self-isolation after moving to campus only weeks before...
Hybrid teaching would mean meeting some students in person and others online. I choose to remain online. I spent months carefully planning for online learning. Changing course midstream threatens to undo all that work and to disrupt my students’ new learning habits.
Just as one cannot smoothly go online overnight, one cannot go hybrid without careful thought and planning. Plus, colleagues who have asked students about the possibility of going hybrid found that a large majority prefer to continue with online learning only.
Source: CNA
