Please view the posters presented at the 19th Annual City Tech Faculty and Student Research Poster Session below. You can click on each poster to enlarge it and view the PDF version under the poster abstract.
We thank all presenters for sharing their innovative and informative research with the City Tech community and beyond!
15-From Classroom to Online Education – An Educator’s Insights
Face-to-face activities at universities became difficult in the spring of 2020 with the worldwide outbreak of the SARS virus version COVID19. Within a short period, all face-to-face classes were cancelled and replaced with remote lectures utilizing online Learning Management Systems (LMS) and video conferencing. The large scale of online education has exposed a number of problems and challenges that although somewhat known have taken on greater significance. This paper describes online teaching models, learning styles, engagement and interaction models to create a foundation for a set of patterns that capture ways of dealing with these problems – solutions that have been developed and applied for online education even before the pandemic hit but are now being more broadly used. Definitions of user experience may be vague and conflicting, as each student and school is unique. The motivation of this paper was the pandemic; however, the findings show engagement as being positive, and yet still exploratory. This work contributes to the understanding of how we can apply patterns for online education and shows the start of a whole new pattern language as we move forward with a new educational model. View or download a PDF version of this poster.
