Technical challenges

 

How do I record and share educational videos with my students?
The Video Service (Video tjänsten) is a media platform where you can easily produce audio and video recordings, and distribute these via video.su.se or via the learning platform Athena. The video service also has the possibility of basic editing and a function for "embedding" quiz questions in your educational film. Read more about how to easily produce educational videos with the Video Service (in Swedish).

 

How do I activate and engage my students with asynchronous tasks outside of class time?

Athena is the university's learning and collaboration platform where you as a teacher can easily plan, organize and implement pedagogical elements in your courses. Read more about how you can use Athena in your teaching (in Swedish).

 

How to handle the anonymization of exams submitted via Athena? How to run Exia's answer in Urkund?

You can export file from Exia with student response and run the file in Urkund. See suggestions on this and more in our padlet

 

How to manage the E-learning platform Zoom as a teacher / or help the students learn the technique

You find a lot of resourses on Zoom at:

 

Need for the ability to monitor online home exams in a simple way

Examples of tools that can be used:

What to do when all students do not have a camera on their computer?

Most mobile phones have a camera. Zoom can be downloaded to the mobile phone.

  

Pedagogical Challenges

 

Some teachers find it difficult to get into new technology

It is a challenge to learn how to teach via Zoom instead of the classroom. In a longer perspective, consider how much of the teaching really needs to be done in zoom. Much interaction can also take place in Athena, even if it is not synchronous, ie communicating simultaneously. See here for ideas on teaching in Athena

Make employees/colleagues feel comfortable - so that they want and dare to develop their online skills. Book opportunities to 'take a coffee' over the zoom to share experiences regularly - those who may come. Take this opportunity to share more about the teaching, both in meetings and informally.

 

Being a distance learning student
Here you find two useful links to support students studying at a distance:

How can we cater for those students who have poor conditions, both technically and in the study environment?
Please go to the student section at SU

 

How do I make a seminar work in Zoom?
Do you want to organize an interactive seminar where your students discuss and reflect on problems and / or issues? Here you find some pedagogical tips and principles for a good seminar climate, regardless of whether it is held online or physically.

 

What to do with examinations that are difficult to convert into home exams as they need to check that student know things by heart
Article on how to think about exams
 

What to do when you as a teacher cannot see how every student reacts / eg. if they really understood the issue just discussed

Use interactive steps such as the zoom feature in zoom

 

It is difficult to replace teaching resources and materials with digital resources. How do we find good tasks and activities? How to teach sign language?
Do not place too high demands on quality for the first time. Ask students for help. Ask colleagues for help, locally and nationally in subject networks, or in the Facebook group 'Digital Transition in Higher Education NOW' There may already be digital material that someone else has created ...

 

Find the balance in finding pragmatic solutions and to adequately adapt the courses to the new conditions
There are courses offered on this topic by CeUL, look out for courses, workshops and virtual labs

 

Create opportunitys to vary the teaching of Zoom during the same teaching and give the students the opportunity to discuss and present things in groups and get feedback from the teacher

  • How to use break out groups in zoom
  • Ask the students to work in groups in Athena on their own, and to collaborate on zoom by doing their own zoom meetings.
  • Preset breakout rooms in zoom by entering settings so you can quickly open "breakout rooms" when you think it fits during a meeting


The practical learning objectives are difficult to cover at a distance
Search the web, in scientific articles via google schools eg. Now many good articles will come out at the top. For example, with keywords such as: teaching practical skills in XX (discipline)


How to think about digital exams?
Please see, Pedagogeeks: Digital examination 

 

How to think regarding Zoom and GDPR?
 Information from NordUNet regarding GDPR and Zoom