ADAPTING TO VIRTUAL TEACHING: An Interview with Sarah Ruckman, online TA for Experimental Biology: Insect Ecology & Animal Diversity Laboratory at FSU.
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES OF ONLINE TEACHING? As a Teaching Assistant (TA), one of the biggest challenges about teaching online is
the lack of in-person feedback from students. Although at the beginning of the online conversion students would have their cameras on, and I could see some of their reactions, later none of them would use their cameras. So online teaching felt like talking to a wall and having no idea if anyone is even there let alone listening to you. In face-to-face teaching, you generally scan the room as you are speaking and can see students taking notes and hopefully
are discussing or if they are confused
engaging in what you
about what you are talking about.
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