Addressing Challenges in Course Design for Pandemic Pedagogy
In designing courses amidst a pandemic, focus on addressing student isolation, unpredictability of personal circumstances, and anxiety. Implement strategies like increased flexibility, enhanced communication, and reducing grading emphasis. Resources for ungrading and utilizing Slack for effective communication provided.
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Pandemic Pedagogy Heather Blatt, hblatt@fiu.edu Three conditions that, after brainstorming, I focused on addressing in course design: Student isolation from social communities Unpredictability of personal circumstances (personal or family unemployment; unplanned child or sibling care; illness) Anxiety and insecurity arising from health, employment, financial, family, housing, and social factors
Planning for each condition: Increased flexibility in due dates accommodations for unpredictability of schedules because of employment, family, health, etc. Enhanced opportunities for communication and connectedness accommodation for community and social isolation Diminishing anxiety to relieve stress and focus on points, I diminished the role of grading, replaced with focus on learning and skills development
Implementation: Flexible due dates all assignments have due dates but also a no questions asked, penalty- free submission window through the Sunday following the due date Token system allowing students to skip an arbitrary number of assignments, no questions asked Course Slack server with channels for synchronous and asynchronous communication with entire class, small groups, and individuals Text based, but can include image and file sharing Can add social options (channels for sharing pet pictures, music, memes) Student feedback: a nice surprise, an extremely useful tool, simulates the feeling of in-person discussion Ungrading : provide individual or class-wide qualitative feedback, plus student self-assessments where they assign themselves grades and explain why Student feedback: it alleviates some of the tension ; I am excited to learn for learning s sake
Resources Jesse Stommell s work on ungrading: https://www.jessestommel.com/how-to-ungrade/ Slack guide for students: https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=104478 Slack guide for faculty: https://uto.asu.edu/sites/default/files/faculty_workspace_set_up_guide_1_apr19.pdf
