Thursday, June 4, 2020
Experienced face-to-face lecturers preparing to teach online, where they won’t have the benefit of reading body language and will have to battle new obstacles, such as Zoom fatigue
By Laura Booth, Record reporter
WATERLOO — Instead of standing on the stage in an auditorium and lecturing to hundreds of students taking microeconomics, this fall Ken Jackson will sit in his home office and talk into his computer screen as first-year students listen in.
“Giving a live lecture to 600 students is not new to me, but giving it virtually is,” said Jackson, an economics professor with the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Laurier and the University of Waterloo will deliver the vast majority of classes remotely this fall.