1.6 Reflecting on online teaching experience at UoE
Watching the video I realised that for me teaching is performing, and performing needs a live audience. This is why I find it hard to imagine myself doing online teaching. However I can see how blended teaching could be an opportunity to try out different things. I particularly like the ideas of podcasts, either having students do this as group work and /or for assessment but also for staff. Our MSc programme is a mixture of translation theories and practice and we could interview translators and post these interviews as supplementary material attached to specific lectures, that way students can make a clearer link between theory and practice.
I was astonished to learn that people have 70,000 students, I thought 100 was a lot so it makes the process less daunting!
The take-aways from me are that you can diversify assessment (e.g. podcasts), possibility to re-use (e.g. interviews), importance of taking into consideration students’ location (students in China for instance might need more time to access the material, solutions, sending USB sticks?), pedagogical value is different from efficiency, keep it simple at first, be present in forums.
Hello there Claudia. Me again! “sending USB sticks?” I do this a bit with the universities I work with in Tanzania and Uganda and it works (at a cost, obviously). I think also releasing content earlier than you would normally is a good idea (like a few weeks early) to give students a chance to digest materials. All good ideas. Keep them coming!
Thanks Michael, I’ll keep this in mind! Charlotte