{"id":561,"date":"2020-03-19T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/drcobb\/?page_id=561"},"modified":"2020-04-24T09:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T16:49:44","slug":"kpu-instructors-transitioning-to-remote-learning-four-faculty-share-their-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.wordpress.kpu.ca\/drcobb\/kpu-instructors-transitioning-to-remote-learning-four-faculty-share-their-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"KPU Instructors Transitioning to Remote Learning: Four Faculty Share Their Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Created by Dr. Arley Cruthers<\/em>, Dr. Gordon Cobb and Dr. Gina Buchanan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each day, we\u2019ve been providing quick tips<\/a> for faculty switching to remote instruction. To help you understand how these tips look in practice, this blog post profiles four faculty members who are tackling the challenge of moving to remote and digital delivery in different ways. If you\u2019d like help bringing any of these ideas into your own course reach out to the Teaching and Learning team here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer Au <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Jennifer Au is a faculty member in the Chemistry department at KPU. Since 2017, she has recorded brief videos of her lectures  using an iPad and posted them to Moodle for her students. These videos have been very helpful in her transition to remote instruction.  Easily  follow along as Jennifer uses a split-screen approach, allowing students to both see and hear her speaking from the bottom left corner of the screen and see the the various steps involved in solving an equation. She has kindly shared an example video<\/a>, which also demonstrates how she uses clickers in class. This model would work well for courses where students are expected to work with formulas or equations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to posted recorded video lectures, Jennifer also uses Big Blue Button during class hours to hold office hours for her students.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot from Dr. Jennifer Au’s recorded lecture series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Gordon Cobb <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Gordon teaches music technology to classes this term. He has 3 classes of 25 students each for a total of 75 students.  His students are working in groups of five developing showcase portfolios designed as record labels to showcase their compositions and develop a brand as a group of emerging music artists.  The final assignments was intended to be a group presentation, where each record label would present their work to a fictional executive producer (Gordon) to win a fictional one-million-dollar start-up grant.  With classes moving to an online format, Gordon had to find a solution for the final presentation that would still allow for students to present their work, talk about their process, represent their brand and demonstrate what their record label stands for.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gordon redesigned the final presentation using OneDrive and the online version of PowerPoint contained within OneDrive.  Each group will now work asynchronously on building a PowerPoint presentation that uses material created for the original presentation.  Students will include the following types of media: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      video clips of students explaining concepts and presenting ideas in a similar manner to how live presentations would have occurred; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      imagery and infographics to explain and demonstrate choices; <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7      text and hyperlinks to support their ideas.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The online version of PowerPoint does not support audio recording or video capture directly in the software, so students will make videos or audio recordings on their smartphones, forward them to one member of their group who will take the PowerPoint session offline in order to add the video and audio.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of the presentation, Gordon will receive the final version of the PowerPoint session via email.  So far this process has been going well and the students are familiar with PowerPoint, so there hasn\u2019t been resistance to the alternate approach to this final assignment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot from a showcase portfolio (Record Label) created in Gordon’s Music Technology class<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Lesley McCannell <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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When moving her Human Relations class online, Lesley made three major changes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n