{"id":1830,"date":"2020-08-17T09:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:45:34","slug":"a-game-a-day-fun-and-dynamic-synchronous-online-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/all-news\/a-game-a-day-fun-and-dynamic-synchronous-online-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Game a Day: Fun and Dynamic Synchronous Online Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa K. Forbes, PhD in Faculty Focus<\/p>\n<p>I was in the middle of conducting a research study, examining my own teaching of implementing fun and play into learning, when COVID-19 hit, and we were forced to transition from face-to-face courses to fully online classes. I had to re-think how I would offer a meaningful class in a way that allowed me to continue my research study. As a student, I didn\u2019t remember online learning being very playful, but now, as a faculty member, I was determined to find out how I could make my virtual classes more fun. I found that fun and play was actually pretty easy to incorporate in online formats. The digital world opened up alternative possibilities that were not available within in-person settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facultyfocus.com\/articles\/online-education\/a-game-a-day-fun-and-dynamic-synchronous-online-learning\/?st=FFdaily;sc=FF200817;utm_term=FF200817&amp;utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=A+Game+a+Day%3A+Fun+and+Dynamic+Synchronous+Online+Learning&amp;utm_campaign=FF200817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa K. Forbes, PhD in Faculty Focus I was in the middle of conducting a research study, examining my own teaching of implementing fun and play into learning, when COVID-19 hit, and we were forced to transition from face-to-face courses to fully online classes. I had to re-think how I would offer a meaningful class&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,62],"tags":[103,80],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-distance-learning","tag-engagement","tag-online-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/faculty-hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}