Making at a Distance: Teaching Hands-on Courses During the Pandemic

摘要: Classes involving physical making were severely disrupted by COVID-19. As workshops, makerspaces, and fab labs shut down in Spring 2020, instructors developed new models for teaching prototyping, electronics production, digital fabrication at a distance. Instructors shipped materials equipment directly to students, converted makerspaces job-shops, substituted low-tech construction methods hobbyist industrial tools. The experiences of students during the pandemic highlighted learning opportunities when outside makerspace. Simultaneously, shutdown raised questions on limits remote fabrication, electronics, manual craft. This panel brings together experts discuss their production art, design, engineering pandemic. Panelists will strategies, describe what worked did not, argue how we can best support hands-on skills going forward.