Engine-uity and the digital campus
by Sven Schottmann and Danny Ng
When COVID-19 led to border and campus closures, Navitas colleges around Australasia moved into digital campus mode with record speed. But how do you teach online a discipline marked by highly tactile learning experiences in lab settings and an almost apprenticeship-style pedagogy?
Here, we explore the responses of three Navitas engineering academics to the challenges of 2020, and how they took everything technology could offer to set their students up for success in an environment where the rule book itself had ceased to be relevant.