Distance/Online Engineering Education During and After COVID-19: Graduate Teaching Assistant’s Perspective

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced universities across the globe to switch to distance/online mode of teaching since Spring 2020. The engineering college teaching community including graduate teaching assistants were severely affected by this change. Even though numerous articles cite a variety of strategies for online teaching for full time instructors, it has been identified that there are limited resources tailor made for graduate students who are teaching engineering classes. This article tries to bridge this gap by exploring some strategies for graduate teaching assistants to help them prepare for online classes and overcome the challenges posed by online/distance education from a graduate student’s experience and perspective.