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Yep....gotta put together lessons and instruction for at least 5-6 weeks.
Wonder what that's gonna look like for me. Guess I'd better start making a plan.
@jmike314, the email sent out to Edmond teachers had some pre planned curriculum.@BobbyV, I’m guessing you wife teaches at Edmond?
 

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Stimulus checks going straight to Apple. Making money even in a down economy,
If Americans were able to vote on the bill a lot of Pelosi's bucket list would be cut considerably. Yesterday I posted that schools to include universities would adopt the online teaching and it would be part of their schooling. It saves money in heating, cooling new construction of classrooms, parking problems, and the instructor could videotape his presentation and not even show up except for the taping. I believe our country is going to change significantly due to the Coronavirus threat.
 

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An Apple MacBook is a want and not a need for most classes. My grandson’s school uses Netbooks for all of his stuff. $300 will buy a very capable one. The school checks them out.


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What the hell ever happened to a Big Chief notebook and a pencil?
 

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If Americans were able to vote on the bill a lot of Pelosi's bucket list would be cut considerably. Yesterday I posted that schools to include universities would adopt the online teaching and it would be part of their schooling. It saves money in heating, cooling new construction of classrooms, parking problems, and the instructor could videotape his presentation and not even show up except for the taping. I believe our country is going to change significantly due to the Coronavirus threat.
Saw a program on TV today that said higher education would almost certainly change. When I was in College, some of the classes had pre recorded sessions with some graduate students as aids if someone had questions. Never saw the professor. That was back in the day. With all of the online capabilities now, I can't see how it doesn't change.
 

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Saw a program on TV today that said higher education would almost certainly change. When I was in College, some of the classes had pre recorded sessions with some graduate students as aids if someone had questions. Never saw the professor. That was back in the day. With all of the online capabilities now, I can't see how it doesn't change.
Can't say I ever had a class like that. Closest I came to it was the class I took on Japanese history, but that was actually a telecourse. OETA aired a program at o-dark-thirty that we had to watch, but we did have a class session one evening per week that the professor (not a TA) taught.

As far as Higher Ed changing, that's nothing new--it has been changing for a long time. We began preparing for the possibility of having to do remote learning (under the general category "distance education") due to a potential pandemic almost a decade ago. There have been a lot of advance in those ten years; it would've been a heck of a lot harder back then.
 

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Can't say I ever had a class like that. Closest I came to it was the class I took on Japanese history, but that was actually a telecourse. OETA aired a program at o-dark-thirty that we had to watch, but we did have a class session one evening per week that the professor (not a TA) taught.

As far as Higher Ed changing, that's nothing new--it has been changing for a long time. We began preparing for the possibility of having to do remote learning (under the general category "distance education") due to a potential pandemic almost a decade ago. There have been a lot of advance in those ten years; it would've been a heck of a lot harder back then.
Its progressed a lot from 16mm projection cameras.
 

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Yep....gotta put together lessons and instruction for at least 5-6 weeks.
Wonder what that's gonna look like for me. Guess I'd better start making a plan.

Working maths with my nephews. Taught him how to play dominoes and throw 42. Not sure if it helps, but it sure is fun.
 

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Online classes aren’t new for colleges these days. I’d be surprised if a place didn’t offer one.

but, those courses are usually developed for online, with professors often having a semester or summer to design and implement the program. And with the support of university resources.

what is going on right now (at least here) is wild. Professors were given a bit more than a week, midway through a semester, to figure it out. And the order included classes that can’t realistically be learned online (how do you do a bio chem lab online or teach chorus over the internet easily)?

we will see how this all shakes out, but a lot of this is just a stopgap solution until the semester is over. After that it will be interesting to see what the schools try to do with expanded online learning
 

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