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Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education During COVID-19 & Beyond: Pitfalls & Opportunities for Access & Equity

Katie Clum September 24, 2021 September 24, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Access, Change Agent, COVID-19, Digital Citizen Advocate, Digital Divide, equity, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator

Like so many other countries across the globe, higher education institutions in South Africa were forced to reckon with a rapid pivot to online teaching/learning in order to maintain operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of the 26 public universities in South Africa, 25 are residential institutions that did not allow distance education prior to 2014 (Czerniewicz et al., 2020). This scramble to change modalities in 2020 came …

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Resilient pedagogy: The professional development opportunity educators need now more than ever

Katie Clum April 29, 2021 April 29, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, COVID-19, faculty professional development, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, resilient pedagogy

Resilient pedagogy is an emerging instructional philosophy with extremely timely implications for this current moment in education and the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Though facets of resilient pedagogy have long been practiced by educators in the form of classroom differentiation, and though other frameworks like Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Transparency in …

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Global research collaboration and the pandemic: How COVID-19 has accelerated networked learning in higher education

Katie Clum March 4, 2021 March 4, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, Collaborator, Connected Learner, COVID-19, Digital Tools, Global Collaboration, Higher Education, networked learning, research

According to the National Science Foundation (2019), one out of every five academic research articles are written by authors hailing from more than one country. This fact suggests that the value of international research collaboration was recognized and sought out well in advance of the global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, but perhaps it’s only just …

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“Assessment in higher education during COVID-19 and beyond: Will it ever be the same?”

Katie Clum January 24, 2021 January 24, 202101 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, assessment, Change Agent, COVID-19, Higher Education, Learning Designer, online learning, online teaching, Professional Learning Facilitator, Remote Teaching, Student Voice

Perhaps the word “unprecedented” has been overused in recent months, but it consistently seems to be the most fitting word to express the seismic shifts in all areas of life that have occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. As K-12 and higher education institutions worldwide have grappled with rapid pivots to online teaching and learning (and …

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Preservice Teachers & COVID 19: So Much Depends on the Field Experience

Liz Ebersole August 14, 2020 August 14, 202001 - Visionary leadership, 02 - Teaching, Learning, & Assessments, 03 - Digital age learning environments, 04 - Professional Development & Program Evaluation, 05 - Digital Citizenship, 06 - Content Knowledge & Professional Growth, COVID-19, Preservice Teachers

Originally presented at the Seattle Pacific University 2020 Global Symposium on Educational Innovations and Reform When K-12 schools in the United States closed in response to the COVID 19 pandemic, it brought about an abrupt end to the field experienc…

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Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education During COVID-19 & Beyond: Pitfalls & Opportunities for Access & Equity

Resilient pedagogy: The professional development opportunity educators need now more than ever

Global research collaboration and the pandemic: How COVID-19 has accelerated networked learning in higher education

“Assessment in higher education during COVID-19 and beyond: Will it ever be the same?”

Preservice Teachers & COVID 19: So Much Depends on the Field Experience

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