Speaker
- Rena Levitt (Minerva)
Details
Many institutions of higher education have transitioned to online teaching over the past few weeks in response to the novel coronavirus. As a result mathematics faculty are being asked to rapidly translate their courses from brick-and-mortar classrooms to virtual environments. These online modalities require faculty to reassess how they engage students. We faced a similar challenge five years ago when founding the Minerva Schools. In the time since we have taught hundreds of college students math in real-time virtual classrooms. In our experience, synchronous classes are most effective when students are actively engaging in well-defined tasks throughout the session. In this seminar, you will take the role of a student in a portion of a Minerva calculus class session. After the class simulation and debrief, we will have anopen discussion about translating active learning techniques to synchronous, virtual classrooms.
