Effect of COVID-19 on digitalisation of higher education. A tale of one business school

IF 2 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice Pub Date : 2023-08-16 DOI:10.53761/1.20.6.10

Marina Glushenkova, Margherita Zagato

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed higher education institutions across the globe to switch from face-to-face teaching to remote teaching. This study explores how emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic affected university teachers’ perception of online teaching and discusses the future of e-learning after the pandemic. The analysis is based on the interview responses collected from twelve business school teachers at one Sino-foreign university in China. The results show that the perception of e-learning improved after a semester of involuntary remote teaching. We also discuss the factors that may act as barriers to the adoption of e-learning, such as poor quality of the Internet, high workload, and lack of proper online pedagogy training, and show that teachers tend to implement elements of online teaching even despite these barriers as long as they find the usage of the online contents beneficial for their practice. Finally, our findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the digitalisation of higher education and created new opportunities for the provision of online education.

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新冠肺炎疫情对高等教育数字化的影响。一所商学院的故事

新冠肺炎疫情促使全球高等教育机构从面对面教学转向远程教学。本研究探讨了新冠肺炎大流行期间的紧急远程教学如何影响大学教师对在线教学的认知，并讨论了大流行后电子学习的未来。该分析基于对中国一所中外大学12名商学院教师的采访回复。结果表明，经过一个学期的非自愿远程教学后，对电子学习的感知有所改善。我们还讨论了可能成为采用电子学习障碍的因素，如互联网质量差、工作量大和缺乏适当的在线教学培训，并表明教师倾向于实施在线教学的要素，即使存在这些障碍，只要他们发现在线内容的使用对他们的实践有益。最后，我们的研究结果表明，新冠肺炎大流行促进了高等教育的数字化，并为提供在线教育创造了新的机会。

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Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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18.80%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice aims to add significantly to the body of knowledge describing effective and innovative teaching and learning practice in higher education.The Journal is a forum for educational practitioners across a wide range of disciplines. Its purpose is to facilitate the communication of teaching and learning outcomes in a scholarly way, bridging the gap between journals covering purely academic research and articles and opinions published without peer review.