This is the sort of thing we need to be doing because distance ed. is here to stay!

Season 5, Episode 1 and Sidecast for Talking About Organizations, Episode 63, “Remote Operations — The Hudsons Bay Company“

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As the summer of 2020 proceeds, there is a lot of talk on-going regarding the future of education — short and long-term. The short-term gets a lot more of the press right now because of the weighty decisions faculty and administrators must make for the fall semester, both how to begin the semester and what to do should cases of COVID-19 spike again (whether second-wave or continuation of first-wave).

I came into the pandemic as one who accepted and tolerated distance learning but admittedly biased toward the resident experience. I am now a changed person and have embraced distance and blended learning as never before.  In this episode, I tell of my experience of undergoing that change.

But I’ll tell you what — it isn’t easy to do. Not just because of the process of teaching from one modality to another; that part is well understood and documented and debated all around higher education. What about specialized content? If you are the creator of a course designed for a specific professional purpose, then it becomes your problem to do the migration and tailor the material for the new modality. I had to do this for multiple courses, crossing both resident-distance and synchronous-asynchronous boundaries. I learned some tough lessons which I will share with you in this episode.

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TAOP Episode 63, “Remote Operations — The Hudson’s Bay Company“, covering: