Erin Scott, Kit Hickey, Paul Cheek and Elaine Chen, who all teach at MIT, have the following pro-tips for people looking to transform their interactive and engaging classroom.
Teaching tips
- Err on the side of having a powerpoint presentation so people can follow along
- Less case discussion, more interactive lecture and breakout activities
- Plan out the activities and distribute materials ahead of time
Audience engagement tips
- Set expectations of how we would like the audience to engage ahead of time
- The audience should have their cameras on if bandwidth permits
- Expect more comments than normal since people can type
- Allow people to type questions through chat
- Rather than take questions along the way, stop explicitly and address questions
- Batch up the questions and answer them in between delivering the lecture
Technology and audience management tips
- Assign a designated virtual moderator other than the speaker to manage and monitor audience engagement and questions submitted
- Create an alternative real time coordination mechanism for speakers/presenters/moderators to communicate outside the virtual conferencing platform
- Consider using two screens – one for powerpoint screen sharing, the other for showing the audience in grid view
Group work
- When doing group breakouts, every group should assign 1 person responsible for reporting
- Use Google Slides – have the group edit slides then present to class
- Use breakout feature
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