From the home office: Andreas Alexander

– My best tip for maintain good teaching when going digital is to engage students to interact through polls and shared online documents. Andreas Alxander is a doctoral reasearch fellow at the Department of Geosciences and this week started teaching his students from his balcony.

man sitting outside of his house, working on a computer

What subjects are you teaching?

I’m teaching exercises on a geomorphology course and GIS modules in an introductory earth science and a geodesy course at the moment.

From where and what are you working on right now?

From home, either from my kitchen table or from the balcony. I have a lot of teaching duties at the moment: So creating new digital teaching material, holding exercises, supporting students and answering their questions, correcting reports, helping to troubleshoot IT problems. And besides that: Using the time to work on my publications, analyzing my data and writing a final report for one of my fundings.

What are your best tips for maintain good teaching when going digital?

Engage students to interact through polls and shared online documents.

What has been most engaging for the past week? 

Certainly the rapid transformation into online teaching. Adapting teaching material and getting used to the strange feeling of speaking to a bunch of black windows, trying to figure out where the students struggle and how to help them. 

What are you looking forward to when all this is over?

Going back into the field. I had a couple of exciting projects that were cancelled due to the current situation, so I’m really hoping that all this will be over before summer and I’m looking forward to get back to the polar regions in summer and do fieldwork again.

By Eva Michelsen Ekroll
Published Mar. 26, 2020 9:29 AM - Last modified Mar. 27, 2020 10:03 AM