{"id":3804,"date":"2017-02-13T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?page_id=3804"},"modified":"2020-06-26T10:31:48","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T16:31:48","slug":"2017ambassador-moeck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/engage\/ambassadorprogram\/2017ambassador-moeck\/","title":{"rendered":"Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador 2017 &#8211; Nassau: William Moeck"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3805\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2017\/02\/WMoeck-350.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3805\" src=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2017\/02\/WMoeck-350.jpeg\" alt=\"William Moeck\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WMoeck-350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WMoeck-350-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/WMoeck-350-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Moeck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>William Moeck<\/strong> is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College. With a doctorate in early modern British Literature from the City University of New York, he taught face-to-face classes for twenty-five years before learning how to manage his first Blackboard course.<\/p>\n<p><em>I did it really as a kind of joke, fully expecting to hate it so I could dismiss online teaching once and for all as pedagogical gimmick without real benefit. Imagine my surprise when my first online class\u2014a British Literature survey covering the texts I knew and loved best\u2014allowed for an unexpected level of dialogue between classmates that never happened in face-to-face sections. Instead of me lecturing on Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare while my students took notes or dozed, I was able to witness lively and spontaneous interchanges on open-ended issues, such as love and lust, honor and vanity, justice, and revenge. If this kind of intellectual debate seldom happens in the classroom, I reasoned, perhaps online pedagogy has set a new generation of learners free.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Moeck is a Professor of English at Nassau Community College. With a doctorate in early modern British Literature from the City University of New York, he taught face-to-face classes for twenty-five years before learning how to manage his first Blackboard course. I did it really as a kind of joke, fully expecting to hate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"parent":2473,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3804","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3811,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3804\/revisions\/3811"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}