Ever tried teaching online without a headset and somehow there is an echo to everything you say or hear? Wondered why that is so? Well, participants in a video call will hear echoes and feedback if your computer’s built-in microphone captures the sounds that your speakers emit! To avoid disturbances and sounds that may disrupt …
How are your lesson plans shaping up for the rest of the academic year? Are you struggling to make your classes more interactive? Do you experience any difficulties encouraging students to be engaged with your course content? Have you tried to incorporate multimedia content into your lessons yet? There are numerous online teaching resources on …
The whiteboard is the quintessential fixture of any physical classroom. Teachers use it to illustrate key points in their lessons. Students write on whiteboards to present their answers or to collaborate and create mind maps. Then, someone whips out a camera phone and snaps a photo to immortalise it on their class WhatsApp or Telegram …
Have you run out of ideas to engage students and to make online learning just as effective as face-to-face lessons? Is it becoming increasingly difficult to maintain the interest of your students in your course content? Are you starting to notice students’ lethargic reaction to your current online teaching strategy? If you have been lecturing …
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Ever wanted to record video lectures for your students but you do not know where or how to start? Perhaps, all you want is an easy to use, free software to create video lectures for your students. Video lectures are useful as a learning resource for students to view and refer back to whenever they …
Online teaching platforms have been gaining popularity even before the current Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school disruptions and a shift towards online learning. These platforms serve as a hub that aggregates course materials, lecture videos, worksheets, discussion forums, and quizzes. Anything that can be digitalised can be hosted on these platforms. By centralising course materials, …
Covid-19 has changed the way we regard online learning forever. Never has there been such a prolonged period of school disruptions. E-learning days may have prepared us to teach online, but conducting such exercises on an annual basis may not have taught us how to increase the effectiveness of online teaching. This article will walk …
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Have you been collaborating remotely while in isolation? If you are an educator, have you been issuing group projects to your students? The Covid-19 pandemic challenges students to communicate and cooperate even without meeting face-to-face. This period has prompted re-assessments of work processes and questioned long-held assumptions that the ideation process must be done in …
Are there any differences between an online whiteboard and an interactive whiteboard? Is an online whiteboard not supposed to be interactive? Well, yes, and yes. First introduced by SMART Technologies in 1991, an interactive whiteboard retains the idea of a physical whiteboard whereas an online whiteboard exists in browsers or as an application on mobile …
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Online learning has been around since 1989 when the University of Phoenix first offered bachelors and masters degree online. Online learning is not a new phenomenon, and remote learning has had an even longer history. As the Coronavirus pandemic swept across the world, schools have been forced to close, and students have had no choice …
