Ten strategies for a successful transition to remote learning: Lessons learned with a flipped course.

ABSTRACT: Transitioning from in-person to remote learning can present challenges for both the instructional team and the students. Here, we use our course "Biodiversity in the Age of Humans" to describe how we adapted tools and strategies designed for a flipped classroom to a remote learning format. Using anonymous survey data collected from students who attended the course either in-person (2019) or remotely (2020), we quantify student expectations and experiences and compare these between years. We summarize our experience and provide ten "tips" or recommendations for a transition to remote learning, which we divide into three categories: (a) precourse instructor preparation; (b) outside of class use of online materials; and (c) during class student engagement. The survey results indicated no nega

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Vedrenne AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7679550 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature