Beyond Covid-19: From emergency to professional development perspectives

Journal title EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND TEACHING
Author/s Loredana Perla, Ettore Felisatti, Valentina Grion, Laura Sara Agrati, Rosa Gallelli, Viviana Vinci, Ilenia Amati, Roberta Bonelli
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2 Language Italian
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DOI 10.3280/exioa2-2020oa10802
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The University was rapidly pushed into the era of distance teaching and learning (Dad) to cope with the imperative to ensure training for young people even in the lockdown period due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This necessity forced academics to a fast reconversion of traditional teaching into online learning environments for many still unknown and unusual. This has led to significant changes in the approaches and practices in use, favoring choices and solutions often not considered before. This research investigates the experience of distance teaching and learning (Dad), defining the concept, to investigate changes occurred in teaching practice, paying specific attention to the teaching mediation and to assessment, two areas considered foundational and emblematic in teaching-learning processes. 721 academics responded to an online questionnaire designed for this research; from the answers relevant changes in teaching and assessment methods emerged. Together with an increase of interest in the use of online practices, critical elements also emerged, such as the permanence of traditional models and innovation. Overall, the results seem to outline, although to different extents, the need to consider as central the professionalism of academics as a key factor to successfully reconvert the experience of Dad beyond the contingent moment.

Keywords: Distance learning, didactic mediation, evaluation, faculty development, CAWI survey

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