Amazing how things went in the elapsed two weeks. What we have witnessed recently is an amazing forcible engagement of the most resistant educators in the e-learning process. On the other hand, students had to complete the cycle too.

When persons in charge clearly identify the complexity of learning materials and experience of both teachers and learners, this can flow very smoothly.

However, chaos is potential when disoriented efforts are fulfilled.

Here, I suggest some tips to land safely with our students.

– Teachers really need support if they are new to the online learning. I think it would be great if instructions are sent written or voice-recorded to the tutor so that they can follow them appropriately. These issues can be tricky and not easily remembered during a training session.

– A video showing the mechanism of making the online lecture for the teacher and of the method of uploading for the student can be very helpful. Support centre can use Screencast-O-Matic or Camtasia to do this task.

– A good thing to do among teachers is to gather them in group, especially in a readily accessible one like WhatsApp. Help from peer teachers is invaluable.

– Always start with something we are all familiar with. Powerpoint is an easy tool that contains a record button from the slide show menu. Record interval is unlimited, but it’s always better to make a 15-minutes show for the feasibility of download. Also, students can rehearse more frequently their ambiguous themes. Saving the file as a powerpoint show is advisable since it has a reduced size, yet with good quality.

– It’s good to record the practical lessons and upload them for now, but they should be repeated after the situation resolves. Assuring the students of that helps eliminating their anxiety. Logically, sending a video to the students and telling them that this would be their practice today will raise their pressure, which is already at peak.

– The ability to teach the teachers how to utilise these digital literacies is related to the amount of support and patience they get. Observations should be recorded, especially in the term of the educators’ needs, and used in digital rehabilitation programmes.

– The present changes must be invested wisely upon initiating future online courses because if teacher rehabilitation programmes do not begin to evolve, they will soon be obsolete.