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Publication Date: 2022
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'Education without Limits': The Digital Resettlement of Post-Secondary Education and Training in Singapore in the COVID-19 Era
Watermeyer, Richard; Chen, Zan; Ang, Bryan John
Journal of Education Policy, v37 n6 p861-882 2022
This article reports on how those working in post-secondary education and training in Singapore perceive the professional effects of a transition to online learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) as a consequence of the COVID-19 global pandemic. It draws on a survey sample of n = 1553 educators and trainers working in Singapore and their perspectives on how a migration to online LTA is producing long-term, if not permanent, changes to the organisation and delivery of post-secondary education and training. It reveals a largely positive view of digital resettlement of education and training in Singapore as a consequence of COVID-19. Yet despite the articulation by respondents of 'paradigm change' and 'education without limits', we find that an embrace of digitalisation is mobilised (and manipulated) not so much by pedagogical concerns but by economic ambitions and a utilitarian logic common to the neoliberal incantations of a global education policy community.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Training, Trainers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Postsecondary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore
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