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Christy Johnson shares a post from her company blog on how to make virtual learning a better experience for students.

In this panel, experts from Stanford and from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco discussed: 

• Experimenting with synchronous and asynchronous classroom environments, flipped classrooms, and different online tools
• Helping students meet, network, collaborate, complete meaningful activities, and learn from one another
• Thinking creatively about using technology and designing online learning specifically for an online setting
• Staying positive and using what we’re learning now to improve education in the long run
• Working with and listening to students

Themes that Emerged During a Full Term of Online Instruction in Spring 2020

John Mitchell, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, and Maxwell Bigman, a PhD student at Stanford’s GSE, conducted a survey of the online experiences of Stanford’s CS program and revealed those results in a paper, “Teaching Online in 2020: Experiments, Empathy, Discovery.” At Stanford, and so many other universities, Mitchell said, everyone did what they could to adapt to circumstances in the emergency shift to online instruction. It was a seat-of-the-pants-effort. Most faculty spent several times as long as they normally would have to prepare and teach their courses.

Key points include:

• Reducing Zoom fatigue and facilitating student collaboration
• Comparisons with the massive online open course environment
• Using technology to measure and maintain attention

Read the full article, Enhancing the Virtual Learning Experience: Lessons from Stanford’s Transforming Learning Accelerator, on ArtemisConnection.com.