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Death to the dropbox: Rethinking Student Privacy and Public Performance

As online educators struggle to re-create the social experience of the classroom and remote students lament the missing camaraderie and interaction of a face-to-face education, common pedagogical approaches compound these issues by further segmenting and isolating students in the name of privacy. Chief among these approaches is the common habit of asking students to privately submit work to a course management system dropbox. The following paper addresses the problems with faculty's use and overuse of the dropbox and illustrates how faculty can implement a public performance model in their online classes to stimulate a social experience in an online class, increase student feedback and lower online faculty workloads