Thanks for inviting me to the party: Virtual poster sessions as a way to connect in a time of disconnection

Abstract COVID‐19 presented the world with trauma and isolation, but many people, including educators, have offered bright spots of creativity and engagement. As we confronted these issues in our own ecology classroom, we sought solutions to carry‐forward the learning objectives we set for our students in January 2020, yet encourage interaction with the sensitivity that a pandemic requires. In the rapid transition to online course delivery, we opted to retain the original end‐of‐semester poster project in our introductory ecology course. However, we experimented with a new virtual platform where students could disseminate their work and communicate with the community. In this paper, we discuss the Mozilla Hubs virtual reality platform that we used for our event. We also collected qualitative data to share the benefits and challenges of this experience felt by the students, the instructors, and external observers.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Ecology and Evolution

• Publication date

  2020-09-14

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Environmental Science, Education, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1002/ece3.6756PMID 33250981PMCID 7679537
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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