-- Start by continuing to use lessons that are clear and simple, and don’t introduce new programs for teachers and students to learn if you can help it.
-- When building digital lessons, it’s helpful to reduce the number of external links on your online learning platform. For example, if you want students to read an article, it’s safer to upload a PDF (to OneDrive or GoogleDrive), rather than a link to an external site that may or may not work.
-- Many of our classes at school intentionally used workbooks and paper-based tasks instead of laptops to reduce students’ screen time.
I recall listening on the radio recently to an adult learner describing her positive online experience. She said (1) the collegiate atmosphere was what made it so "wonderful", aided by initial exercises they did which were about cooperating with other students; (2) she liked being able to fit in her learning around being a mother; and (3) doing peer assessment of other students' draft assignments really helped the students to bond.
I had a similar experience to point (3) when an online course I did included being given other students' short computer programs to comment on and make suggestions about.
I have been thinking about the simplest, quickest way to tutor online. It might be some adaption of what I have been doing 1-on-1, face to face. There would usually be some problem that couldn't be worked out in the tutoring session, so I would go home and write out the solution on paper (using pencil), scan it into my computer, put it in OneDrive and send my tutee a link. Anything else took too long.
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2020/03/teache...
One tip was "Teachers are using the hashtag #virtualschool on Twitter to share resources."
Other tips from https://www.edutopia.org/article/what-teachers-china-have-le... were
-- Start by continuing to use lessons that are clear and simple, and don’t introduce new programs for teachers and students to learn if you can help it.
-- When building digital lessons, it’s helpful to reduce the number of external links on your online learning platform. For example, if you want students to read an article, it’s safer to upload a PDF (to OneDrive or GoogleDrive), rather than a link to an external site that may or may not work.
-- Many of our classes at school intentionally used workbooks and paper-based tasks instead of laptops to reduce students’ screen time.