Semester starts – mostly online: The world is little on zoom
Teacher of photojournalism Ellen Lande Gossner used recent examples from international cooperation when she spoke about her experiences of teaching during the coronacrisis.
From the middle of March, students from Nepal, Bangladesh, China and Norway had to continue their final year project online. Through weekly zoom meetings they were able to edit a book, an exhibition and a website.
Why have we not done it before, she asked. Zoom turned out to be the best way; more inclusive and democratic. She also organized zoom lectures by international photographers in cooperation with colleagues in Denmark: The world becomes very little on zoom, she says.
The international project has been running for almost 20 years as a cooperation with Pathshala South Asian Media Institute in Bangladesh. After five years in China the students did their field work in Nepal, with photo.circle as the main local partner.
Ellen Lande Gossner presented her experiences during the start-up seminar for the faculty of social sciences at OsloMet this week. The seminar was hybrid, with around 100 persons present physically and the rest online.