Most professors became learners themselves this spring. Forced by COVID-19 to make their in-person courses available to suddenly dispersed students, instructors had a matter of mere days to figure out how to deliver their curricula and connect with students from a distance, using technology tools many had never used before.
They got help from their fellow instructors and from their institutions’ teaching and learning centers and instructional technologists, who worked overtime to smooth the transition. They turned to more digitally experienced peers at their own colleges and elsewhere, and they sought advice from their colleges’ technology partners, from new crowdsourced resource lists and from experts sharing their tips in Inside Higher Ed and elsewhere.
