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In preparation, I have collected some feedback from my current 322 course about their experience moving online this term. All in all, their thoughts are very positive indeed, which supports the impression I’ve also gotten from the transition. As I’ve mentioned in the department Zoom meetings, my 322 students really seem to be thriving this term, against considerable odds, and some are delivering truly stellar work despite the sudden shift online. The survey (16 responses so far, of 26 remaining…

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Example of Best Practice By Associate Prof. Ayse Collins Keens June 2020 Since the beginning of the covid-19 spread around the world, business leaders and experts in each and every sector have urged to analyze the immediate effects in order to adopt to the post-crisis world as quickly as possible.  Borrowing from the economist Milton Friedman “Only a crisis — actual or perceived, produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that…

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For the last 2 semesters I have been using an online task management software called Asana (asana.com) to create the weekly schedule and inform the students for the requirements for the projects and coming weeks. The weeks are arranged in the form of a Kanban board and each week has their own submission space for the course exercises and assignments. The same space is used as a communication place where students ask their questions. During class hours, I use Open…

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Normally, in COMD 102 we were assigning the students in-class projects and before starting to work on them, we were giving them a to-do list. For each project, they were supposed to make a visual research and pin a given number of examples on a specific board on Pinterest. They were working on the projects during studio hours and submit their in-class progress to Moodle the same day. In the next class, we were giving wall, and table critiques and…

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I have students working on group projects for both of my classes, PR and Professional communication. So I have them work on documents on google docs so they can work on the same doc and they don’t have problems with different versions. Also, I had them set up Whatsapp groups (I am not part of these groups) and they do Whatsapp video sessions to prepare and coordinate. We do sessions two times a week and it also helps us to…

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I have always liked in-front-of-the-board teaching (no slides) but also wanted to incorporate computer technology, e.g., to make numerical demonstrations (especially for advanced classes), show videos, or hard-to-reproduce plots. In traditional classroom teaching, this was never practical. (You have to start up a computer, the projector, bring down the screen, then, bring it up, turn off the projector.) Now, I do this efficiently with Zoom. I am attaching a short video clip from my Monday lecture, recorded via Zoom. Note…

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