Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

In what must be the understatement of the year, Bob Wudeck writes, "moving a traditional classroom that's built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application." The gist of the article is that much larger screens will be required, so that "each student appears large, almost in human size, on the projector screen." It should go without saying that this is a really bad idea; students online should not be required to compete with live attendees for attention and engagement. But there's a link to a (paywalled, naturally) research article so it must be OK, right? Um. Still no.

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