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Anita Reitan; Margrethe Waage; Laurence Habib – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
This article explores lecturers' experience of adapting, shaping and transforming teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study focuses on understanding the challenges and opportunities that are afforded by pandemic-induced changes in terms of digital teaching and learning and their post-pandemic implications. Empirical data were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Yan Dai; Lingfei Luan; Xi Lin – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2023
This study investigated the influence of students' different Online Learning Readiness (OLR) profiles on their Online Self-Regulated Learning (OSRL) strategies in the context of the first online learning experience (FOL) for students. The data was collected from 262 students in a four-year university in North China during the Spring of 2021.…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Learning Readiness, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Shklarski, Liat; Paz, Yaara; Ray, Kathleen; Latzer, Yael – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic's impact on people's professional and personal lives is ongoing. The transition to remote teaching has particularly affected social work education due to its experiential methods incorporating a direct experience whereby students "learn by doing." This study examined the impact of the global pandemic and the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Family Work Relationship
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Thapaliya, Mukti – New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work, 2023
This descriptive qualitative study explores lecturers' perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with the five purposively selected lecturers from four TEIs, this article investigates the challenges and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Takayama, Keita – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
In this short invitational essay, I discuss how a series of accidental incidents during the pandemic facilitated my reflection on the implications of COVID-19 for teaching and learning at universities. It recognizes the global health crisis as a catalytic moment to rethink the 'business as usual' of university education and develop renewed…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Christidou, Dimitra; Voulgari, Iro; Tisza, Gabriella; Norouzi, Behnaz; Kinnula, Marianne; Iivari, Netta; Papavlasopoulou, Sofia; Gollerizo, Adrián; Lozano González, Jose María; Konstantinidi Sofrona, Dafni – International Journal of Science Education, 2022
Despite the increasing demand for non-formal science learning activities, few studies report on practitioners' perspectives and experiences with designing and implementing such activities worldwide. This paper focuses on their challenges by drawing upon twenty-two interviews with practitioners involved in diverse science learning activities in…
Descriptors: Science Education, Informal Education, Learning Activities, Barriers
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Üstün, Bilal; Deregözü, Aysel – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study aims to examine the opinions of foreign language instructors who teach at preparatory classes through distance education during the pandemic. Based on this objective, five instructors working at a School of Foreign Languages at a state university in Turkey were interviewed and their opinions regarding the positive and negative aspects…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pandemics, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Liu, Jinming; Huang, Ping – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2021
Student academic burden exists to varying degrees throughout the world. To reach a comprehensive and unbiased understanding of the roles of academic burden, this paper explores academic burden from different viewpoints and summarizes existing assessment indexes for it. Factors correlated with student academic burden are examined and detailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Development, Role, Correlation
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Hashim, Siti Noor Aneeis; Yusoff, Nurahimah Mohd – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to explore the use of reflective practice by English language teachers in providing effective English language teaching in primary school classrooms. This qualitative case study involving six inservice English language teachers who were selected based on purposive sampling. The data in this study were collected using…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods, Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Cockerham, Deborah; Lin, Lin; Ndolo, Sharon; Schwartz, Marc – Education and Information Technologies, 2021
Health and safety concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic required many face-to-face United States schools to suddenly shut their doors, moving classes to virtual learning environments. Amidst concerns of technology overuse, adolescents across the country saw dramatic increases in both personal screen time use and social isolation as they learned to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Well Being, COVID-19
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Valero, Miguel – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2022
Higher education in general, and engineering higher education in particular, is constantly under pressure to introduce reforms that improve the employability of graduates. Among the most common claims is the development of a more active and competency-based teaching oriented to the development of professional and personal skills. The university…
Descriptors: Barriers, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Employment Potential
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De Beer, Josef – American Biology Teacher, 2019
Classroom action research (CAR) represents a midpoint between teacher reflection at one end and traditional educational research at the other. CAR is a process in which a teacher identifies problems in the context of his or her own classroom and then engages in investigative methods to address the problems. Teachers sometimes shy away from CAR,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
Fereal Ibrahim; Sangeeta Nath; Sofia Shireen Ali; Naqsheema Shareen Ali – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
The current study investigated the experiences of in-service teachers' at Fiji National University (FNU) during the second phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research aimed to contribute to the evidence base of factors affecting the effectiveness of online learning for in-service teacher education in Fiji and identify strategies for improving…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Wilson, Frances; Wade, Neil; Evans, Steve – School Science Review, 2016
As part of a wider qualification reform at upper secondary level in England, the assessment of practical work is changing, following concerns that the legacy model of assessment was having a negative impact on teaching and learning. The OCR examination board is running a longitudinal survey of teachers' views on practical work, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Science Instruction, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Withers, Michelle – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
Finding the time for developing or locating new class materials is one of the biggest barriers for instructors reforming their teaching approaches. Even instructors who have taken part in training workshops may feel overwhelmed by the task of transforming passive lecture content to engaging learning activities. Learning cycles have been…
Descriptors: College Science, Educational Change, Instructional Innovation, Learning Processes