I am a Rank Beginner
I am a rank beginner at teaching online. Let’s be clear – for those of us who teach mostly face-to-face classes, the situation this spring has not been “online teaching,” but lifeboat education, emergency instruction, or, as my friend Professor Courtney Joseph puts it, the business of salvage-a-semester. True online teaching, like any pedagogical practice, requires planning, patience, training, support, and the time and willingness to learn from mistakes. Those of us who scrambled this spring to put our courses…