Please also check the tips for online teaching prepared by OGEM. ITS has also created supporting documents for online teaching. FAQ Categories: Online EducationDo I have to start online education? Do I have to start online education? According to the decree by YÖK and the decision by METU rectorate, theoretical courses have to start online education and finish education on the newly announced academic calender. According to the e-mail sent by rectorate (GENEL-DUYURU: 10006), the midterms (if you want to make any) should also be done online. For the final, there are two options:
My course requires laboratory sessions. My course requires laboratory sessions. Although it was hope that we would have an "Intensive Summer Month Academic Calendar for Spring Semester," where we could have face to face lectures/labs, it turns out that it will not be possible. We are required to finish the Spring semester by Distance Learning. In the case of the laboratory work, it might not be possible to ask the students to use the laboratory equipment, you might come out with some other means to achieve at least some of the outcomes expected from your course. Some of these possiblities can be: 1. Creating videos of the experiments and expecting the students to make observations and draw conclusions from these observations. They might even create some videos explaining/defending their observations. 2. Sending students data that they could have obtained by actually doing the experiment, and asking the students to analyse the data, and write a report based on the data. The data can even include some random statistical and/or systematical errors that might be different for every student. 3. Asking students to design an experiment that might be used to measure a given quantity. This can be used espeacily if they had a chance to get used to the equipments available in the labs in the first six weeks of the semester where they could come to the lab. My course has both a theoretical part and laboratory part. My course has both a theoretical part and laboratory part. The theoretical part of such courses can start online, and to carry out the experimental part, you need to wait for the intensive. Note that the starting time, duration, etc. of this intensive period is not yet known. What is an online lecture? What is an online lecture? Due to the ongoing pandemic, we cannot have in class meetings to proceed with our courses. Still, there are things that can proceed through online tools. An online lecture can contain one or more of the following items:
How about the exams? How about the exams? All the exams are required to be online. Even if your courses are extended to the "Intensive Summer Month Academic Calendar for Spring Semester", this month will also be carried out by distance learning. If you were planning to do the final exam before this "Intensive Summer Month Academic Calendar," now you are required to do it remotely during the normal final exam period. Please check the documents prepared by ITS? for some of the options to do an online exam. What is an online exam? What is an online exam? There are various options for an online exam (although some are not strictly an online exam)
How can you prevent students from cheating in the exam? How can you prevent students from cheating in the exam? This is probably the most problematic issue with online exams. Even during in class exams, preventing students from cheating is a difficult problem, with an online exam it inevitable becomes a more serious problem. There are several options to reduce this problem:
In my course, the students are supposed to make a presentation. In my course, the students are supposed to make a presentation. You can have online meetings using Zoom, BigBlueButton, Jıtsi or Skype and still have them make synchronous presentation in front of their friends. Another option would be to ask students to make a video of their presentation. Majority of students have phone with video capabilities. The students are worried about the current pandemic. The students are worried about the current pandemic. You are right. But read the common questions on the FAQ for students. We as instructors should keep this in mind especially when we are deciding on grades, giving graded assignments, etc. Video Preparation I use slides in my courses. I use slides in my courses. For this purpose, download the PowerPoint application for your smartphone (for iphone or Android). PowerPoint will allow you to show the slides and also write on the slides. Hence, you can use this method to create videos in which you use the slides as a whiteboard and write on it with you finger, or stylus if you have one). If you have an Android phone, (that is if you don't have an iPhone or an iPad), you will need to download a software to create a video of whatever you see on the screen. Download Screen Recorder - No Ads from Google Play Store. iPhone or iPad users (with iOS 11 or later installed) don't need to download any application as the screen recording capability is built in. To learn how to record your screen, you can follow the instructions here. Now you have all the software to record your video. Watch the video available here for how to record your lecture in Android. The “lecture” that is uploaded in the video can be watched here. To watch a video on how to prepare a similar video using iPhone, watch the video here, and a sample video created using this method is available here. It might be a good idea to put your phone in airplane mode to prevent any messages to appear on the screen while you are creating your video. In my lectures, I use the blackboard extensively. In my lectures, I use the blackboard extensively. The answer in being prepared. The video files are created are very large. How can I reduce their size? The video files are created are very large. How can I reduce their size? You need to process the videos to reduce their size. You can easily achieve a reduction by a factor of four or more. Check the program Handbrake in the Tools section (Tools for All Platforms), or you can also use ffmpeg if it is already installed (check the "Tools for linux" section in the Tools page) |