How Can Universities Raise the Bar for Remote Learning?

克里斯托弗·马丁: 我们很多人在春季学期都觉得, 好吧, 我们必须完全上网, and that means we have to create the exact classroom experience on the internet. 所以每个人都认为，哦, I guess we need to use a Zoom or a GoTo Meeting for and meet at the regular time each and every week." And it turns out that that's not necessarily always the right way to do it. 当然, 对于某些课程, it's necessary to always have a live session or at least sometimes to have a live session. 而是专注于课程设计, 以及是否要一直直播, 重新构建, 想想看, "What is the outcome that you're desiring for the course and are there other ways to achieve that?"

So, for instance, my brother Dave has just finished his first year of college (Go Dave!)，他还参加了公开演讲课程. 当他告诉我的时候, 我以为, "Oh, they probably just spun up a Zoom session every week and gave presentations.他说, "No, we used our Zoom sessions just to discuss best practices--what works, 什么在公开演讲中行不通. And then all the students actually recorded their public speaking presentations privately in their own homes, and then uploaded them into the LMS where students were able to go in on their own time and provide commentary and actually point out timestamps where 'There's something you said at this point that, 你本可以做得更好的,或者“我真的很喜欢你现在的做法。.'"

And students were able to go back and watch themselves, 我认为这是一种非常有趣的方法. I think it's much more helpful in that case to learn that way, because you're replaying your own public speech that you might've only given once and not been able to rewatch. So, 诸如此类, just thinking about formatting and knowing the tools well enough to be able to provide suggestions for courses and for faculty who are looking to do this, 在网上重建他们的课程.

Eric nis: 展望未来, we're really looking at a plan for over four years: every classroom, having recording capabilities and conferencing capabilities too. In two-and-a-half months, Notre Dame has pushed up the start of the fall semester by two weeks now. 我们需要每个房间都能成为混血儿. Some students will be able to be on campus, and we're expecting some students won't be able to. 所以期望每一个, every professor needs to be able to be recording every session, that's going to be a pretty intense lift here over summer to be equipping a few hundred classrooms of going from 15 to 400 locations to be doing records. The storage and the data contracts all have to be doubled, 增加了两倍, 翻了两番, depending on which one you're talking about for the load. We've already scaled Zoom to be able to handle the conferencing, but the records of Zoom meetings like we're doing with this one, 为以后录制, 当你和你的学生一起上课的时候, 你需要能够记录下来.

We also just built out a full global classroom--that's what we've labeled it. There is another version--I'm not gonna say which university, cause I'll probably get it wrong--they had what they call the "Wow room,“我们研究了其中的一些, 还能让教授走进来, 这里有一个实际的算子, large multiple screens to be able to see the students, to be able to interact with them more natively--as well as you can be natively in video. So you have large monitor on one side where everybody's speaking, then a large monitor being able to show who's talking and a large Microsoft Surface so that they can be doing more diagramming as opposed to needing to have a lightboard and changing camera angles.

But being able to integrate more interactive tools in one location and a more dynamic teaching process for those higher-end classes that need more interaction with the professor and with the content to be able to discuss the parts like formulas and outcomes and diagramming so that there is a much larger interaction. 所以我们用这种方式装备了一些工作室. And then every classroom is going to be equipped with lecture capture and video conferencing.