<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Noam<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for this useful paper. Isn’t it the basics that we forget when we are in crisis? Thus, no apologies! I forwarded it to those in our school who decide when to go online (and this will be soon).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards from Switzerland, Albert</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 12.03.2020 um 16:27 schrieb Ebner, Noam <<a href="mailto:NoamEbner@creighton.edu" class="">NoamEbner@creighton.edu</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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I’m know we’re all following the news of closings and upcoming closings of educational institutions around the world, and their shifting of their teaching activities online, en-masse. Many of you must have received your marching orders on this front already.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif" class="">
[In this line, I note my restraint in not discussing whether this is a good idea. Onwards.]</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif" class="">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">After reading some of the announcements faculty have been sent, I wondered what might be helpful for faculty to learn just after reading such an announcement, or just
 having received a phone call or email from their dean’s office. Particularly, I pictured faculty who have not yet taught online, working in institutions that have not developed online practices, culture, and capacity. What are the first questions that leap
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I sat down and banged out what I hope are, at least initial answers to those questions, framed (I hope) in clarifying and comforting tone. If, in my rush to get this out, I didn’t always succeed at one of those, my apologies. I may revise this document as the
 situation continues, and perhaps address some more specific issues that pertain to conflict, and negotiation teaching in particular. For now, I offer<span class=""> </span><b class=""><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 112, 192)" class=""><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3552124" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px" class=""><span style="margin: 0px" class="">this
 document</span></a></span></b><span class=""> </span>as a first read to any of you who have been asked/told (or, who expect to be asked/told) to quickly transition online.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif" class="">
I know that many of you have some knowledge or some experience; you are far more likely to be successful in the swift transition! Forgive me for beginning with some ABC’s; perhaps you will find some helpful ideas here as well.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 18.4px; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif" class="">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Good luck and good health, y’all. We could all use some good news. And soon.</span><br class="">
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