{"id":18132,"date":"2020-03-04T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18132"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:05","slug":"the-coronavirus-and-class-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/04\/the-coronavirus-and-class-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"The coronavirus and class broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg\" alt=\"illustration of Earth with temperature scale during 2019 polar vortex\" class=\"wp-image-18133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-268x200.jpg 268w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-188x140.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Temperatures plummeting across North America in late January, 2019. (NASA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 31, 2019, the midwestern United States experienced a period of extremely cold temperatures that drove wind chills to as low as -57\u00b0F. In response, U-M and many other academic institutions in the area canceled classes for two or more days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I teach an introductory course titled Extreme Weather. It seemed wrong to allow such a teachable moment to pass, so I was determined to conduct class despite the classrooms being off-limits and buildings closed,&#8221; explains <strong>Perry Samson<\/strong>, a professor in the Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samson quickly adapted recording technology he was already using in his class to broadcast his lecture in real-time and conduct a timely discussion about the polar vortex. His experience with remote teaching offers insight into how institutions might cope with the possible spread of the newest coronavirus. <a href=\"https:\/\/er.educause.edu\/blogs\/2020\/3\/the-coronavirus-and-class-broadcasts\">Read his article in Educause Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31, 2019, the midwestern United States experienced a period of extremely cold temperatures that drove wind chills to as low as -57\u00b0F. In response, U-M and many other academic institutions in the area canceled classes for two or more days. &#8220;I teach an introductory course titled Extreme Weather. It seemed wrong to allow such a teachable\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/04\/the-coronavirus-and-class-broadcasts\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[810,485,588],"class_list":["post-18132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-covid","tag-online-learning","tag-teaching"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-188x140.jpg",188,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-268x200.jpg",268,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm-600x300.jpg",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",600,447,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/636px-North_america_polar_vortex_january_2019.webm.jpg",336,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"On January 31, 2019, the midwestern United States experienced a period of extremely cold temperatures that drove wind chills to as low as -57\u00b0F. 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