Doing More With Less

While Not Burning Out

Learning Technologists in Support of Instruction During H1N1 Outbreak

Online alternatives to lecture are not the first priority.

Instructors will need suggestions on how to manage course logistics.

Students who get the flu will want to know about missed assignments, missed exams, and

the like.

The Campus encourages instructors to accommodate these students during the H1N1

outbreak.

So instructors need to decide their approach to accommodation.

Either waive the particular assessment and pro-rate the rest or have the students make it

up.

In a course where the content itself cumulates, making up the missed work is necessary.

In this case, the instructor should plan to cover less overall in the course, at least a week less of

work.

This will enable students who had been sick to catch up.

In courses that are a series of topics, waiving the missed work is likely the simplest approach.

Instructors should be encouraged to decide this before they are forced by circumstance to make

a decision.

Instructors also need to figure out what should happen if they get sick.

If they can identify a substitute in advance, that is best.

If no substitute exists, instructors should have a plan for contacting students when the

instructor gets ill.

Only after the logistics have been managed should attention turn to the possibility of online

mini lectures.

Jing Pro for capture ($15) and Screencast.com (free version) together make it simple.

http://blog.jingproject.com/2009/08/capture-a-video-tutorial---we.html

This is probably too much overhead for instructors unless used for healthy students

too.

That’s the main message.

Thanks for watching.