Appearance, social norms keep students off Zoom cameras
January 19, 2021 When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, instructor Mark Sarvary, Ph.D. ’06, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras. It didn’t turn out as they’d hoped. “Most of our students had their cameras off,” said Sarvary, director of the Investigative Biology Teaching Laboratories in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS). “Students enjoy seeing each other when they work in groups. And instructors like seeing students, because it’s a way to assess whether or not ...
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