Teaching Online in 2020: Experiments, Empathy, Discovery

摘要

The rapid shift to fully online university courses in response to the global pandemic led to widespread instructor-based experimentation on an unprecedented scale. We summarize the experience of a full term of instruction in Spring 2020 in a Computer Science department serving close to 2000 declared undergraduate majors and graduate students. Three themes emerge: (1) there is extensive experimentation; (2) tracking the progress and well-being of students takes center stage; and (3) many instructors draw heavily on the toolbox assembled over the last decade of progress in online learning. We summarize recommendations for university instructors and course designers based on our findings, as well as for others interested in how to best serve learners in the emergent era of online learning.