In-person? Online? Hybrid? … What to do?
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My view: Educators (especially at the college level) are making a fundamental mistake when trying to structure their curriculums for the fall.
They’re thinking about the problem in the wrong way.
Now, most schools are simply trying to maintain past schedules and coax all courses online, essentially emulating what’s currently being done in the classroom.
Rather, they should strategize around two fundamental questions:
1. Which courses require classroom presence?
2. Which courses are most suitable for online delivery?
When those questions are answered, load the fall schedule with the most online-suitable courses … and defer the classroom-dependent courses until the virus is behind us (hopefully when the calendar flips to 2021)
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So, which courses are classroom-dependent and which are online-suitable?