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Nathalie van der Kooij is a lecturer in Legal Academic Skills<\/em> and a tutor in Jurisprudence<\/em> at the Erasmus School of Law (ESL). She is a staunch proponent of online education and believes that lecturers should help make it easier for students to socialise more with each other.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen the crisis broke out, the decision was quickly made that the class for my Legal Academic Skills <\/em>course would not take place. We then very quickly adapted the lectures with webcasts and extra assignments so that students could still be taught. Since June last year, I have also been supervising tutorial groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t mind teaching online. There are an average of around ten students in a tutorial group, so it\u2019s easy to keep things manageable. For the Legal Academic Skills<\/em> course, I have online meetings with twenty to twenty-five students at a time. These also tend to go very smoothly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delegating responsibility to students<\/h2>
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\u201cGenerally speaking, you have to use different tricks than in the classroom. I switch a lot between \u2018classical teaching\u2019 and getting students to work together. Where you would normally resort to a PowerPoint diagram to illustrate something, I try to do that kind of thing less often. I now set more assignments, three or four per lecture. That way, I make sure the lecture remains dynamic so that everyone\u2019s attention is still held.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat also works really well is delegating a lot of responsibility to the students themselves. In a tutorial group, for example, tutors usually make an overview of who has what role during a session. But now I allow the students to decide that for themselves. They handle that responsibility extremely well. It gives them the feeling that they are more in control. I think that sense of control is really what most people are looking for in these times.\u201d<\/p>\n

A platform to meet up with each other<\/h2>

\u201cMy tutorial group sessions run for five weeks and each time I start with the question: how have you experienced this period? Students mention that they are lonely and find it difficult to make contact. That\u2019s why I try to give students a platform on Zoom. My channel for the tutorial groups is always available to them. I always let them know: \u2018As far as I\u2019m concerned, this is your classroom, use it even when I\u2019m not here. Discuss things with each other here, organise digital drinks together, have some fun!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\t

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