Talking Teaching Under Lockdown
By Angela Daly - Posted on 6 May 2020
The University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts podcast series 鈥楾his Teaching Life鈥� interviewed me recently and have just . It was a pleasure to talk to , researcher and curriculum designer in the University of Melbourne. Wajeehah is also a former colleague and old friend of mine from when we both worked at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne鈥檚 eastern suburbs.
This Teaching Life is a podcast 鈥�where colleagues gather to chat about teaching experiences, discuss innovations, and exchange tips and ideas in their practice鈥�. Unsurprisingly, the novelties and challenges of teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic is a major current theme for the podcast. I was asked to share my experiences of working remotely since 吃瓜tv stopped face-to-face teaching in March. Unlike Australian universities, which started their academic year mid-pandemic, I only had three classes left to teach when the university closed. We have a lot to share about our experiences as staff and students during this unprecedented period and in particular we have a lot to learn from our colleagues鈥� experiences Down Under in Australia and New Zealand in starting a new academic year online and at a distance.
In the podcast, I talk about how I have found the period and our transition to online teaching and remote working. In particular I talk about the fully online, distance learning LLM in Internet Law & Policy/IT & Telecoms Law which I direct - and which hasn鈥檛 changed drastically during this period as it鈥檚 already an online degree designed to be delivered at distance. I also speak about my research on privacy, data protection and surveillance, which is highly relevant to governments鈥� and corporations鈥� digital responses to COVID-19, such as the controversial NHSX app the UK government plans to roll out while the Scottish Government has announced its own 鈥�web-based digital tool鈥� for contact tracing.
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