Digital Teaching Toolkit

Research and Instructional Technology Services, NYU Shanghai Library

Teaching Cases

Digital Tools for Re-Creating the In-Classroom Experience

Course: Creativity Considered

Instructors: Adam Brandenburger, Faculty Director of the Program on Creativity & Innovation and Jeff Lehman, Vice Chancellor of NYU Shanghai

Students Enrolled: 12

Technology Used: NYU Zoom, NYU Classes, Slack, Skype

Adam Brandenburger and Jeff Lehman designed their course, Creativity Considered, to be a collective journey on which students go to enhance their creative selves. To this end, the course involved extensive in-class discussion and one or more in-class exercises per session. Each session is two and a half hours long, with two mini-breaks during the class. It also includes student presentations supplemented with slides and commentary.

To move the course to digital instruction, Brandenburger and Lehman began by determining that, with students in China and the U.S., they could only maintain the feel of the in-person experience by teaching synchronously. So they decided to teach the course late in the evening in New York City 10:00 PM, with Lehman joining from Shanghai at 10 AM.

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So Far, So Good: NYU Shanghai Completes First Week of Distance Learning

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Feb 21 2020

Signing on across oceans and time zones, more than 1,000 NYU Shanghai students and faculty successfully participated in the University’s first week of remote teaching and learning. Using state-of-the-art digital tools, students and faculty engaged each other in virtual lectures, discussions, and even dance classes from as far away as Brazil, India, and the United States, and as close by as the Jinqiao Residence Halls.   

“The first week of classes went much more smoothly than we even hoped for,” said NYU Shanghai Library Director Zu Xiaojing, whose Research and Instructional Technology Services (RITS) team worked overtime through the Lunar New Year holiday with the Information Technology team to ensure that spring semester classes could continue despite the coronavirus epidemic that has forced the closure of the campus through at least the month of February. “The vast majority of students this week were able to attend their classes with little to no trouble. Our work in the past few weeks with faculty on course design and technology preparation for the digital phase paid off.”

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NYU Shanghai to Launch Innovative Remote Teaching and Learning Effort February 17

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In a major effort to keep students on track and making progress toward their degrees during the COVID-19 epidemic, NYU Shanghai will be launching February 17 a digital teaching and learning program that is unprecedented both in size and scope for the university.

With the campus closed until at least the end of February to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, university officials have decided to deliver 293 courses slated for Spring 2020 using state-of-the-art digital tools. About 820 undergraduate students and 130 graduate students will be signing on for distance learning from as far away as Africa, the Caribbean, the United States, and Shanghai’s Xuhui district. Another 620 NYU Shanghai undergraduate students will be studying away in New York and at sites throughout the NYU Global Network.

“An extraordinarily high level of collaboration and coordination has taken place internally among all segments of the university,” said Provost Joanna Waley-Cohen. “Faculty and staff in both New York and Shanghai, the latter under the most trying conditions, have been working tirelessly to make sure that students’ needs can be met wherever they are.” 

In particular, the NYU Shanghai’s Research and Instructional Technology Services (RITS) and Information Technology Service Center (IT)  teams have been working throughout the Lunar New Year with their counterparts in New York to ensure that remote teaching can go on smoothly.

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