Alice Zhang

Hobbies/Interests: Writing, reading, swimming, playing Pokemon and Animal Crossing, gardening.

Office Experience

Recent Work: Finding and filling gaps in the current documentation by writing articles about institutionally supported tools and how they can better help the professor during an online semester.

What I’m passionate about in my current role: I really enjoy researching for and writing each article. Since I may be a lot more familiar with some tools than other people, it’s an interesting experience to write out the thought process and steps for performing certain tasks to people who may have never used the tool before or are not familiar with it.

Best part of working in the EdTech Office: I really like that everything is pretty flexible, and that we have some creative freedom to do the tasks we are assigned. In addition, we get to work on what we enjoy while not necessarily being restricted to doing that type of task for the entire internship, so we can get a wider range of work experiences.

Online Learning Perspective

Impression of online learning: I think it’s a lot harder than it sounds for both the professor and student to adapt to online learning, but with the right tools, dedication, and proper communication between the class and the professor, it can be done. I like that online learning gives us students a lot more freedom, schedule-wise, and allows us to pace ourselves.

Recommendation for professors teaching online: Encourage students to give feedback on methods to improve the quality of teaching. Accessibility is an especially important issue now that everything is online, and there are many tools out there that can help.