Online training
Online will always lose out in terms of the effect of presence offline, but in education it will
Offline, in our usual classroom sessions,the professor communicates with a static audience, and this is the model we are used to. In a video conference like Zoom, the audience changes. Someone plugged in and the gallery mode automatically rebuilds. In addition to the professor, the students also see each other. But you and I understand that it is better for a student to see only a professor for the effectiveness of his studies. He should not look at his neighbor on the desk, otherwise the quality of education is lost.
The best scenario for online that we see was invented at the Skolkovo Business School — a combination of Zoom and a virtual classroom called Glassroom.
Virtual classroom
We opened the Glassroom virtual classroom beforepandemics. In fact, this is a specially equipped space for online classes for professors and program participants. At the Skolkovo business school, we were the first to build such a mechanism not only in Russia, but throughout Eastern Europe.
And when remote training became necessary,connected this space with video conferencing capabilities. We are talking about gluing the scripts supported by Zoom with similar scripts of the internal studio of the Skolkovo business school. For Russian education, such a modification is a completely new format, and we see great prospects in it.
In real-time, pieces are cut out of a Zoom meeting and reassembled into the required scenario on the video wall.They are displayed, for example, in close-up on a video wall in the right place and in the right size.
Educational content werepackaging for a virtual classroom format and adding to this a chain of television technologies: good light, good sound, good picture direction. These are the three ingredients for success for a new learning format.
In fact, we are partially turning from a business schoolto the media company. Our speakers are now becoming TV presenters at the same time. Professors learn to work on camera, their assistants prepare not only the content script for the program, but also the script for a television talk show.
Glassroom space we use not only for training, but also as a platform for a series of online events, for example, our conferences under the general title "Antifragility".
The virtual classroom format is economical. We have automated the process so much that only a team of a couple of people is needed to ensure the operation of the virtual classroom. The versatility and interchangeability of these people is very high: one and the same person can work as an operator, a broadcast director, a sound engineer, and an illuminator. But in general, the lecturer himself is enough for Glassroom to work, who can manage all types of content from a tablet, enable voting for lecture participants and do other necessary things.
The virtual classroom is a thing first of allrevealing the potential of the professor. He is in the studio, running, running around the electronic board and drawing, rather than sitting at home and just acting as a dull talking head, which is looked at with half an eye.
interactive board
Glassroom has more than just a regular whiteboard, butinteractive. Any content can be launched on it - for example, the professor's slides, which he can switch, or move images within them. You can display the desired video stream on the board, even from any student's video camera. We can remove any content from the board and put it anywhere: on YouTube, on the wall of a virtual classroom, or in Zoom.
It fits into the script of any lecturequite naturally. Students work in groups, and then come back and display their content on an electronic board, where the professor makes reviews in real time.
But the key function of the board still remainsPainting. There are different colors, pencil thickness, eraser. The professors quickly learned to use it. The content is uploaded to an internal e-learning system that works in the desktop version and from mobile devices. So students who did not have time for the lecture can always come back and watch the video, get all the data that those who participated in on time also had.
Digitizing knowledge
A scheduled lecture in a remote format always loses to a scheduled lecture in an offline format.And we proceed from the fact that absolutely all content should be available in the recordingElectronic systems, where all information from classes is accumulated and archived, are gradually being phased outWith their help, we will develop asynchronous online courses in the form of a layout narrative with good multimedia content.
Lectures by top professors who, moreover,know how to use all the tools that are applicable online, and look no worse in recording than live. When you are watching a recorded activity, it is easier to pause, rewind, repeat, or search for specific passages.
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