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ERIC Number: EJ1294822
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Apr
Pages: 8
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ISSN: EISSN-2165-2554
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Residence to Online: Collaboration during the Pandemic
Cahill, Jacqueline L.; Kripchak, Kristopher J.; McAlpine, Gaylon L.
Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, v10 p80-87 Apr 2021
When 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) arrived with vengeance, face-to-face colleges were scrambling to brainstorm and problem-solve how to best deliver the curriculum in a physically safe manner to complete the semester. At Air University, the intellectual and leadership development center of the Air Force, eSchool of Graduate Professional Military Education (eSchool) is the online graduate college, which offers Squadron Officer School (SOS), Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), Air War College (AWC), and Online Master's Program (OLMP). SOS, ACSC, and AWC all have residence colleges too. At the fully in-residence graduate college--Air Command and Staff College--adult learners, who are airmen, geographically move to attend the college. The instruction has always been fully face-to-face, so they did not have online curriculum nor are their professors trained to effectively teach online. In order to best meet the students' needs for in-residence ACSC, the eSchool was asked to help. This is when brainstorming sessions started as to how to pivot instruction during the pandemic, followed with sharing of resources, expertise, and faculty training. As a result, ACSC in-residence students received the second half of their semester courseware online, which followed significantly more best practices than if a collaboration of the online and residence colleges had not occurred. Perhaps there was a silver lining in the pandemic that may bring about additional educational options in the future.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Alabama
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