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Teaching CS Undergrads Online to Work With Others Effectively

By Orit Hazzan
Communications of the ACM, September 2020, Vol. 63 No. 9, Pages 12-13
10.1145/3409780
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Professor Orit Hazzan of Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology

https://bit.ly/3eKThVT June 8, 2020

Introduction

The Spring semester of 2020 will be remembered as the Corona semester. After a decade of teaching a classroom course on soft skills at the Technion (described in Hazzan and Har-Shai^1,2), I faced the challenge of teaching it online during the Corona semester (while on sabbatical at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). At first, I wondered whether teaching soft skills online is even possible since, unlike theoretical courses, I assumed that close face-to-face (F2F) interaction is required in order to practice such skills. Eventually, I realized that teaching this course online has, in fact, some advantages, that this teaching format opens up new opportunities, and that this medium can even foster several soft skills I had not previously considered teaching in the F2F format. This blog demonstrates these advantages by focusing on the use of the breakout rooms option available in Zoom, which I used extensively in the course.

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