Our college very proactively shifted to online classes midway through the Spring 2020 semester, and we’re continuing with our online classes through the entire Summer 2020 term. We hope to return to the classroom in the Fall 2020, but we are also considering a hybrid approach, where modules that lend themselves to online teaching remain online, and others that are more challenging (acting classes, videocamera techniques, etc.) return to the classroom, albeit with staggered scheduled, social distancing and tiny student groups, etc.
This is not without controversy, and it’s becoming a primary point of discussion, as the entire world seems to be waking up to the subject area expertise of Instructional Designers.
The other controversy is among students, who perceive the shift to online classes to be a lower quality type of learning:
“Online learning carries a stigma of being lower quality than face-to-face learning,
despite research showing otherwise. These hurried moves online by so many
institutions at once could seal the perception of online learning as a weak option, when
in truth nobody making the transition to online teaching under these circumstances will
truly be designing to take full advantage of the affordances and possibilities of the online
format.”
Please read more here: https://medicine.hofstra.edu/pdf/faculty/facdev/facdev-article.pdf
Dottore Mark 