Abstract
Online teaching has emerged powerfully worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper recounts the personal experience of the author teaching his first full-time virtual course online in a synchronous fashion. The author provides back reflection on his Fall 2020 course enumerating advantages and disadvantages for virtual teaching versus in-person teaching. The author also gathered student feedback in the form of a survey on their first fully-immersed COVID experience as a full online live course. Data comparing the pre-COVID course grades and course evaluations to the COVID outcomes are also provided. Based on the survey and grades/course evaluations comparisons, it is concluded that the shift to pure online teaching was successful.
Highlights
The move to deliver courses online is not a new thing
The experience that the author gained by this sudden full-immersion in a fully-online synchronous course offering for the first time in his career, has sparked many thoughts in his mind and a comparison of plusses/advantages and minuses/disadvantages of such modality versus typical in-person course offering
The author’s overall experience teaching a fully online course that was live in nature, via Zoom was positive
Summary
The move to deliver courses online is not a new thing. For the past tens of years, this is a modality that has been developed and still continues to see development in terms of features and capabilities. The earliest attempt at online learning was in 1982 (Wikipedia, 2020). With the advent of the Internet, the easy and mostly free arrival of information took hold. Since people started thinking about the use of the Internet in more structured formats or ways instead of the complex information delivery/gathering inherent with the world-wide “web” concept. People started focusing on how to move traditional teaching from in-person to a virtual or online (Wikipedia, 2020)
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