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First Contact: Getting (Back) in Touch with Your Students

So. Your students are scattered to the winds, their textbooks might still be in their dorm rooms, and you have no idea if they’ll have access to reliable WiFi for the 249 Zoom sessions you plan to schedule. What’s a newly-remote teacher to do? Ask […]


Getting Course Materials to Your Students

Announcing the rapid shift to remote teaching in the middle of spring break makes course material access difficult for many students. Here are ways that you, vendors and publishers, and ZSR Library can help. Additional information is on the library’s Rapidly Shifting Courses for […]


Lessons from a Veteran

Today’s post is a guest post by Barry Trachtenberg, Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History At my previous institution, I taught 4-week online courses in the History Department for about a dozen years during the summer and winter sessions. I’m not a great fan […]


National Public Radio Interview

A few hours before Wake Forest suspended face-to-face classes on Wednesday, I had a brief conversation with Jeremy Hobson of NPR’s Here and Now. In this interview, I offer advice to the many faculty and students transitioning to remote instruction across the country, talk through […]


Preparing for Remote Teaching

As I write this, 43 institutions have decided to suspend face-to-face classes to slow the communal spread of the novel coronavirus [update as of 3/11 @ 1:46PM: the number is 147]. In almost all cases, the plan is not to cancel classes, but […]


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