Course: Crime, Punishment, and Atonement
Instructor: Marcel Daniels, Lecturer at English for Academic Purposes (EAP), NYU Shanghai
Students Enrolled: 12 * 2 sections
Technology used: NYU Zoom, NYU Classes, NYU Qualtrics, Google Drive, Google Docs, Doodle, Flipgrid, Podcasts
Marcel Daniels, a lecturer in English for Academic Purposes program, is now teaching the course “Crime, Punishment, and Atonement” in Atlanta to two groups of 12 freshmen spread out across China. It’s his first time teaching this course, which focuses on training students’ listening and speaking skills in academic English.
Usually in his language class, Daniels conducts a lecture, shows students a live talk, divides students into small groups for discussion, and then asks them to report key points of their respective discussions back to the class. When all the activities were migrated online, Daniels’ previous teaching experience with digital platforms and technologies helped him adapt quickly to harnessing online tools and managing virtual classrooms.
Daniels says he has been able to find equivalent solutions online for nearly all of his teaching activities. Every week, he prepares one or two asynchronous lectures and uploads the recordings and other supplementary videos or handouts to Google Drive and NYU Classes before class. During class, he moderates live discussions through Zoom, monitors notes that students take in group discussions on Google Docs, and uses Doodle polls to help students schedule group discussions outside of class. He also used NYU Qualtrics to administer an anonymous online survey about students’ familiarity, and comfort and experience level with remote learning.
