There's a lot of good thinking in this report (26 page PDF) on best practices for emergency online learning during the pandemic. It draws a lot both from the Anderson-Garrison-Archer Communities of Inquiry (CoI) model, and especially the idea of teaching presence, and from what reserachers saw being done effectively in China to respond to the same crisis. "The Chinese project team advocated schools designing a blend of synchronous and asynchronous teaching and identified four essential technologically enabled pedagogical techniques that should be used in combination: live-streaming teaching (lecture format); online real-time interactive teaching; online self-regulated learning with real-time interactive Q&A; online cooperative learning guided by teachers." The report also stressed the utility of open educational resources to address learning content needs.
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