Fighting Zoom Fatigue: Keeping the Zoombies at Bay

The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused much disruption in early 2020 to educational processes around the world. Traditional classroom experiences transitioned to emergency remote ones, and, with little guidance or preparation, time many educators simply moved their lessons to an online video format using video conferencing systems. The methods that effective online teaching requires differ from the methods that traditional lecture formats require, and, as such, students often found themselves fighting online video meeting fatigue. To combat online meeting fatigue, we tested and employed several strategies that we discuss in this paper. We found activity switching, online small groups, and asynchronous lectures particularly effective techniques