Teaching, learning and scholarship are a journey or, rather, a series of short and long journeys with paths that sometimes serendipitously cross. With a journey, you may set out toward one goal and later find yourself in a place you did not expect. Spring 2020 was like that for most college students and instructors due to our global pandemic. Suddenly, instructors found themselves employing new technologies to adapt to remote teaching and engage students. Both groups needed to achieve a new balance, facilitating learning in a way like never before.

1. Balancing Teaching and Technology
for Remote Education:
My Personal Journey
to Hybrid and Flexible
Dr. Christine Hagedorn
Assistant Professor, Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, PA
June 2020

2. You can refer
to this video
that goes
with this
presentation
from the
author.

4. Rosemont
College, Bryn
Mawr, PA

5. My Classroom February 2020

6. My Classroom
March 2020

7. Teaching
Facilitate learning. Create environment where
students can interact with subject matter.
Learning
Acquiring new knowledge, skills, attitudes,
understanding in way where one can make
meaning of this new information.

8. Interactions in our “classroom” are:
Student to Student
Student to Content
Student to Professor

9. Active Learning
Interact with concepts | Experience something | Think
critically | Combine new and old information | See through
new lenses | Take risks Test the limits of one’s own
understanding.

10. “I like how
we do
stuff in
class”

15. So, the Big Idea is students
are the ones using the
technology in my teaching ☺

16. “Blended learning environments are providing
students with transferable skills they can
leverage in the real world which include
problem solving and the ability to take research
into their own hands.”
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17. Planning for Fall
Ask me about the “thought bubble assignment”
Hint: Students do a scripted skit in the “front of the
classroom” with props and “thought bubbles”
Learning Goal: Role-Play Management roles,
practice active listening and empathy/ negotiation
and Business communication skills.

18. Teacher Provides the Information

19. Students
Provide the
Informatio
n

21. Definition
Re-
defined
I Googled “Remote education” …
here is what I found:
“the student and the
educator (information source)
are not physically present
together in the same classroom
environment.
“Information is relayed via
technology, Discussion Forums,
online assessments,
videoconferencing.”

22. Remote
Education
(I think)
(information source) are not physically
present together in the same
classroom environment but they are
synchronously and asynchronously
present together in a virtual
classroom environment.
“Information is relayed co-created by
all class members via technology
tools: discussion forums, online
assessments, shared collaborative
documents, podcasts, recorded videos
videoconferencing.”

23. Be guided by what you want your
students to know or have
experienced when they leave this
class.
Ask yourself, what experience can
they have that will help them to
make meaning of __________?
Then, find the technology that will
help the student have that
experience.

24. From Paul’s book:
“Educators face a paradigm shift where learners are taking
greater responsibility for directing their own learning …
…which is an opportunity to guide students and build
environments conducive to learning.
As faculty roles shift, students learning too is shifting to
become more relevant…”
Right On!

25. "Tell me and I forget, show me and I may
remember, involve me and I learn."
-Ben Franklin
I hear I forget, I see I remember, I do I
understand -Confucius

26. Thank you for listening :)
Dr. Christine A. Hagedorn
christine.hagedorn@rosemont.edu
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinehagedorn/