I’ll See You Online

Abstract

In early March, Lewis & Clark started to prepare for a primarily face-to-face campus to scale up to support distance learning in the event students or instructors would need to quarantine. We expected to use Zoom, the video conferencing platform fully supported by IT to deliver a handful of fully online and distance learning courses. Within a week we instead needed to assist with an emergency transition to teaching online fully. To support this effort, we needed to quickly scale up both a video conferencing platform and faculty development program for all faculty. In this paper, I’ll share our experiences using both Zoom and Google Hangout Meet, our training programs, eventual adoption rates, feature evaluation, and faculty and student responses to this transition.