Video: U of T's Jooyoung Lee to teach students, build community over Twitch
The 重口味SM鈥檚 Jooyoung Lee is betting that an online streaming service normally associated with video games is just the thing to keep students engaged this fall.
The associate professor in the department of sociology in the Faculty of Arts & Science will be teaching on Twitch, a live-streaming platform where the most popular channels feature such games as Fortnite and Call of Duty.
Lee, who credits the idea of teaching on Twitch to his online gaming friends, says he鈥檚 planning to hold students鈥 attention by keeping his lectures to 鈥渁 10 to 15-minute, TED talk-ey type of experience,鈥 with students able to ask questions and engage with the material in a follow-up live stream.
鈥淚鈥檓 very excited because creating a community through Twitch or whatever platform you鈥檙e using could be really meaningful to a lot of students right now,鈥 Lee says. 鈥淚 know it will be meaningful for me just to connect virtually with other people again.鈥
Lee isn鈥檛 the only U of T professor to embrace Twitch. U of T Mississauga鈥檚 David Samson, an assistant professor of biological anthropology, is also using the livestreaming service to deliver his lectures.