Online teaching
As a lecturer of Physics at
the University of Zaragoza, I teach the fundamentals of Physics (i.e., classical
mechanics, thermodynamics, fluids, electromagnetism, waves and optics) to
engineering students enrolled in the School of Engineering and Architecture.
The first semester of the academic
year 2020-21 we only gave online lectures. Quite a challenge for a rookie. However, even though students are
not very communicative and often one has the feeling to be talking alone
(students do not switch on their cameras), I do enjoy online teaching. When
asked directly, students are responsive. In addition, online teaching gives a
degree of flexibility that traditional lessons cannot offer. Anyhow, I asked
the students their opinion about which kind of teaching modality they prefer (anonymous
questionnaire), and even though majority of them prefer standard onsite lessons
(58.6 %), many declared they prefer a combined hybrid system (27.6 %) or even
only online classes (13.8 %).
Online teaching from the office |