The great pandemic experiment of educating students remotely has taught us a lot about what worked, what’s working now and what needs to happen next. Despite its short comings, even if we go back to traditional models, fully remote and hybrid learning are now the expected future paths, at least for higher education. Upgrading the class room technology is great, but not many instructors are trained in instructional design capable of transforming elements of in-person pedagogy such as sequencing, content layout, duration, informative feedback, and methods of affirmation critical to an on-line curriculum.
Here’s My Take: The world of education needs to catch up, and the best approach is to increase the interaction between the instructors, the “teaching enterprise” and the technology. The problem has been costs, so we need to establish a new model. We need to build up a community of instructional designers that are accessible virtually to support teachers on ways to use technology to build out their lesson plans and engage their students. We also need to encourage platforms like Engageli integrate with existing learning management (LMS) and student information systems, and can measure the engagement of distance learners in real time to validate the return on investment in the remote learning technology.
Resource: The Classroom of the Future, CES 2021
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