Thank you, Ron, for getting my thinking in gear this morning. I love the emerging ideas of bartering and a cooperative exchange of speakers. You could also put your budgets together and record a speaker who then is shared virtually.BUT, I wonder if you all might consider going beyond form and logistics, i.e. the HOW of teaching and speakers, to the WHAT? Somewhere I saw a note about prioritization, but that is just about weeding out and I doubt you all feel like you had tons of fluff in your classes to begin with.So, my thinking this morning went off into a whole new direction, taking off from the "not burden shifting but burden sharing" idea I emailed about earlier.I mean, for a group like this one assembled on this listservs, doesn't this crisis raise whole new (or new once again) questions such as:* how does a global crisis like this affect the conditions for (international) political and policy cooperation?* how does a pandemic positively and negatively change the conditions and outlook for environmental policy making and implementation?* what does precarity mean in global environmental politics?* what can we learn from this health-cum-economic crisis about the weak spots in our globalized systems?* how do we make the path to the SDGs more robust to disruption?Oh, I am sure you all could add fascinating other questions and all of a sudden the contents of your classes gains a whole new level of immediacy and relevance. Students will be way more engaged because everyone's brains are already in this crisis. And because none of us have the answer to this, you may use zoom classes and discussion fora and assignments as collective thinking and learning events than just trying to figure out "delivery mechanisms."Heck, universities could once again be places for true intellectualism and serve society well in this difficult time.Ok, enough from me in one day. But this was fun! I can imagine so many variants for any number of classes. The toilet paper case study will be an utterly real teaching device for oh so many things...SusiSent from tiny phone. Forgive typos -------- Original message --------From: Ronald Mitchell <rmitc...@uoregon.edu> Date: 3/17/20 11:31 PM (GMT-05:00) To: GEPED <gep-ed@googlegroups.com> Subject: [gep-ed] just a thought
One other thought on the whole online learning thing – Zoom or other apps for streaming lectures might be an excellent, low-carbon way to bring in guest speakers. We could each “trade” guest lectures on our well-known subjects (the lectures we can give in our sleep), reducing workload of developing lectures for us while giving our students better content. I am not offering to coordinate this – just a suggestion in case anyone thinks it’s a good idea. Ron Ronald Mitchell, Professor Department of Political Science and Program in Environmental Studies University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1284 rmitc...@uoregon.edu https://rmitchel.uoregon.edu/ IEA Database Director: https://iea.uoregon.edu/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/5e721272.1c69fb81.399de.0b91SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com.
