Leading the Charge: The $7 Million Story of BU’s Hybrid Teaching Transition

(8/26/2020, BU Today) 

Karen Jacobs, a remote teaching coordinator for Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, says RTCs tapped the resources at DL&I’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), shared their knowledge, and passed on what they learned to their own faculties. Jacobs (Sargent’79), a Sargent clinical professor, associate dean for digital learning and innovation, and program director of the online post-professional doctorate in occupational therapy, says she showed faculty how to record a remote class, use breakout features so students could work in small groups, and share documents through the chat feature. We also encouraged faculty to make sure all of the content that they typically deliver in person was on their Blackboard site.”

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