Online education: Hello, goodbye? | Gino Camp | TEDxOpenUniversiteitHeerlen

After having had negative experiences with emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 crisis, it is completely understandable that most of us are not a fan of online education. Gino Camps however challenges us to look beyond the coronavirus trauma and to start thinking about how to effectively use and evolve the online education we set up during the COVID-19 crisis. Based on insights from memory research, Gino Camp examines how students and teachers can optimize the learning process in educational practice. Gino Camp is professor Effective Learning at the Open Universiteit. From the student's point of view, he examines how particular learning strategies can be used to enhance self-study. From the teacher's point of view, he examines how instructional strategies can help to improve learning results with students. He is committed to translating knowledge from lab research into practical applications and does this in face-to-face education, but also in online and blended learning environments.
Besides producing various scientific and practice-oriented publications on this topic, he regularly gives workshops and lectures about effective learning strategies. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@MeetKevon]

Found this video as I'm wondering what others think about online education these days. As an online teacher running courses for 2.5 years, I agree with Gino here. It all comes down to designing the experiences to be fun and interactive. Frankly, either online or offline gets a bad reputation because a lot of people don't do it.

[@humbertogarcia7317]

Institutions should offer both approaches. Let the customer choose which fits their goal. The variables for choosing are numerous; economics, tech access, time for classes, etc.

[@user-pz2sn8jm8c]

At least in North America, we've still not actually done online education. We did "talk at the camera that you don't know how to use while delivering your lesson in *exactly* the same way as you would do if that camera were a student in your class". Educators were (and still are) unprepared, and usually unqualified to deliver lessons through an entirely new medium. Ironically, the power of the computer and digital delivery method is like an F1 race car compared to a Model T Ford. But if you take a farmer and put them in a F1 they're not going to go anywhere. Educators have to completely change their approach, learn how to use the tools, and focus on the objective (successful long-term integration of knowledge). Until then "talk at the camera" is going to be all anyone thinks of when they hear "Online Education" and it's going to be received as well as it has been.

[@lenaduchannes8952]

How were there only 2 comments on this? I agree, the fundamental elements of effective teaching are possible at a distance. Education can't be just consumption, though. Even in lectures, students should be taking notes that are personally meaningful or of a summary nature, or maybe tilting their head in thought, making those mental connections in real time.

[@user-iz6cc9xm1t]

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[@rahulpotter1]

I feel its a talk about LITERACY not EDUCATION.

[@user-db7oc7zj8o]

the mouth sounds 🤤

[@jordanhowell2370]

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[@user-tw5ng2jc1z]

How were there only 2 comments on this? I agree, the fundamental elements of effective teaching are possible at a distance. Education can't be just consumption, though. Even in lectures, students should be taking notes that are personally meaningful or of a summary nature, or maybe tilting their head in thought, making those mental connections in real time.