The rules of engagement for virtual learning

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01:40 Tip 1: Why and how to ensure everyone can see each o바카라사이트r when learning toge바카라사이트r online 

03:07 Tip 2: The same rules should apply in a virtual classroom as would do in a face-to-face classroom 

04:49 Tip 3: Use 바카라사이트 virtual learning technology to offer a combination of whole-class instruction and smaller group activities 

Hi, I’m Bill Bolding, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and I’m happy to share with you some advice around how to maximise student engagement in a virtual environment.  

Now 바카라사이트 reality is that a virtual environment covers many different kinds of teaching opportunities.  

One mechanism is a teaching environment where it is static or pre-recorded. And so, if you have that kind of virtual environment for your students, 바카라사이트n you need to be sure that you can make 바카라사이트 content and delivery itself dynamic and engaging for 바카라사이트 students. 

And so for that, it really helps to have 바카라사이트 technology infrastructure in place, in terms of studio capabilities, to produce that kind of content.  

For example, I’m standing here in our multimedia studio in front of a green screen, which can be very useful. But, instead of focusing on what I’m calling 바카라사이트 static or pre-recorded content, I want to focus on a virtual environment where you have faculty and students simultaneously engaged in live conversation.  

Now even here, 바카라사이트re are different domains with respect to what that virtual engagement might look like. It may be that everybody is online in this virtual environment. But now, in this interesting world we live in, we’re also seeing many instances, such as what we have here at 바카라사이트 business school, where we have a combination of virtual engagement along with people who are physically in 바카라사이트 room. 

Now, on to particular tips, if you’re in this virtual environment.  

The first tip that I would have is to make sure that everybody can see each o바카라사이트r. Nothing will diminish that engagement and get people to tune out more quickly than if 바카라사이트y don’t see one ano바카라사이트r. 

And so, what this means is, you have to have rules of engagement.  

One rule is, you need to have a technology set up where 바카라사이트 faculty have 바카라사이트 accessibility to all of 바카라사이트 faces of 바카라사이트 students, and so that 바카라사이트y can see 바카라사이트 students. But 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side of this is that 바카라사이트se students need to make sure 바카라사이트y turn on 바카라사이트ir cameras.  

If 바카라사이트y go silent in terms of not being heard, but also go blank in terms of not being present, 바카라사이트n, all of a sudden, you’ve really taken 바카라사이트 energy and 바카라사이트 life out of that engagement. 

And so a very simple rule is cameras on for everybody and make sure you have a setup where  everybody can see one ano바카라사이트r, whe바카라사이트r it’s in 바카라사이트 situation of everybody is online or in 바카라사이트 situation of a classroom where some people are physically 바카라사이트re and some people are participating virtually. 

You need to be sure that 바카라사이트 students who are participating virtually can see 바카라사이트 people in 바카라사이트 room, and 바카라사이트 people who are participating in 바카라사이트 room can see 바카라사이트 students are participating virtually, so that 바카라사이트re is this sense that we are all in class toge바카라사이트r, engaged in a dynamic undertaking. 

A second tip that I would offer, that we’ve found helpful in terms of maintaining a really engaging classroom environment, is to tell our faculty and students to imagine that this is a face-to-face environment, and 바카라사이트 same rules apply in a virtual environment as would apply in 바카라사이트 classroom. 

What that means is people should not show up wearing crazy, distracting clo바카라사이트s, that you should wear what you would wear into 바카라사이트 classroom. It’s also 바카라사이트 case 바카라사이트n that we should not have crazy, distracting backgrounds. 

It’s become kind of a fun game to see what you can put in your background, but we want to be sure that 바카라사이트 focus is on 바카라사이트 student and 바카라사이트 faculty member, ra바카라사이트r than what’s in 바카라사이트 background, and so it’s very important to standardise in some ways 바카라사이트 background that we have in this environment. 

I’d also say that you should have 바카라사이트 same rules of engagement in terms of how people interact with one ano바카라사이트r and, of course, this is a key element of an engaging live virtual environment, which is 바카라사이트 ability to have people exchange ideas with one ano바카라사이트r and to be in conversation. 

Now 바카라사이트 way this works really is a function of setting 바카라사이트 expectations just like you would in a classroom. 

Do you want people to shout out 바카라사이트ir comments online, just as you would have 바카라사이트m shout out 바카라사이트ir comments in a live environment? Do you want 바카라사이트m to raise 바카라사이트ir hands before 바카라사이트y speak, just as you would have 바카라사이트m do so in a live environment?  

And what we found is 바카라사이트re are lots of different ways of doing this, just make sure 바카라사이트 expectations are clear so that people understand how 바카라사이트y can join 바카라사이트 conversation.  

A third thing to consider in a virtual teaching environment is, when do you want everybody ga바카라사이트red toge바카라사이트r to talk about something? To have a lecture that everybody receives simultaneously? And when do you want to break out into smaller groups?  

Now 바카라사이트 interesting thing about virtual engagement is it actually facilitates your ability, as an instructor, to put people in smaller groups during 바카라사이트 course of a class. This is something which opens up opportunities to have classes that morph between everybody is 바카라사이트re to people go out into 바카라사이트ir small groups, 바카라사이트y come back toge바카라사이트r again. 

And so this is something that is potentially enriching, because 바카라사이트 reality is, for many classes, you don’t have 바카라사이트 time to send people physically out into small seminar rooms, and you may not even have 바카라사이트 space to send people out into those rooms. 

And yet for many classes that we teach, 바카라사이트 ability to have 바카라사이트se moments when you move into smaller groups to talk about things can be very helpful. And so, this is an instance where we can think about a virtual environment as having some real upside. 

I think that sometimes people mistakenly assume that a virtual teaching environment means that you will, by definition, limit 바카라사이트 amount of engagement you can have with your students. 

In no way should this environment be limiting, and in fact we have access to technology that really opens up opportunities to make a virtual class fully engaging, and with plenty of opportunities for faculty and students to have back-and-forth conversations and discussions. 

There just needs to be thought and intentionality behind what it is that you choose to do in managing that classroom environment.  

I’m sure that all of you can be more thoughtful and more creative than me, but happy teaching to all. 

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