{"title":"A Paradigm for Global Student Interactions Through Digital Technologies in a Post-COVID Era","authors":"R. Taraban, S. Saraff, R. Biswal, W. Marcy","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch003","url":null,"abstract":"The widespread outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic forced almost every aspect of our lives to shift to online modalities. One outcome of the pandemic was to effectively establish digital learning as a major system for education. The purpose of this chapter is to describe the development and implementation of a web-based resource for college instruction. The foundation for this pedagogical tool is sociocultural learning theory. This instructional tool has been deployed with over 2000 students to date. Its successful employment with college students in India and the USA is outlined, and suggestions are included for its generalized use to other content and courses.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126604813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jie Zhang, Ann M. Giralico Pearlman, Jennifer Little Kegler
{"title":"Leveraging Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Improve Technology Dependency and Intercultural Competencies","authors":"Jie Zhang, Ann M. Giralico Pearlman, Jennifer Little Kegler","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch005","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, the authors discussed the use of virtual exchange (VE) courses in a global context to prepare college students, including journalism students and pre-service teachers, for technology dependency and intercultural competencies through the faculty-librarian-instructional designer collaboration. They shared the pedagogical and technological issues encountered when implementing the VE courses with their international partner professors and described their journey of an ongoing process of collaboration and problem solving prior to and during the pandemic. Concrete examples were provided to demonstrate how they used VE to produce meaningful student learning outcomes and to expand accessible international education. The authors also discussed future research and further implementation of the VE courses.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127857531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology Integration in the Post-Pandemic Secondary Classroom","authors":"Jessy K Hanshaw, S. Talbert, Jess Smith","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch011","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the existing literature surrounding educational technology in secondary classrooms both before and during the ERT as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2019–2021. The researchers synthesize digital learning, 1:1 and BYOD initiatives, PLCs, and TPACK in order to both describe the current state of secondary classroom technology integration as well as to make informed recommendations about necessary future research. The researchers suggest that TPACK provides a useful framework for secondary teachers to use as they implement new technologies into their teaching and that PLCs can serve as worthwhile areas in which teacher professional development can occur.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126334058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janeen Pizzo, N. Svrcek, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko
{"title":"A Framework for Discussion in a Post-COVID World","authors":"Janeen Pizzo, N. Svrcek, Kathleen Colantonio-Yurko","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted teaching and practice for secondary educators. The authors consider how content area secondary educators, in light of the pandemic, can support adolescent students' understanding of discipline specific concepts through discussion in virtual spaces. Discussion is integral to literacy learning in the disciplines because it provides students with the tools they need to be successful learners and active participants in their learning. The authors use critical literacy, TPACK, and SAMR to provide educators with a framework to evaluate and interrogate disciplinary literacy teaching methods. The chapter provides educators with tools for secondary educators to engage in the thoughtful reconstruction of the learning experiences they design for students.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122755347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“What Is It Like to Suddenly Shift From Traditional Face-to-Face to Exclusively Online Training?”","authors":"Annalisa Raffone, Alonso Mateo Gómez","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch010","url":null,"abstract":"Sars-CoV-2 suddenly spread in late December 2019, forever changing people's lives all over the world. Consistent advancements have been done, especially at the medical level, to face the virus and slow it down. At the same time, schools, universities, and educational institutions have been facing hard times since the beginning of the pandemic. Teachers had to shift from face-to-face to exclusively online classes overcoming daily challenges and helping students with their subjects. This chapter aims to present the results of a study conducted during the first wave of COVID-19 concerning language teachers' perceptions of ERT in secondary schools, high schools, and universities. QUAN and QUAL data were collected and analyzed through descriptive statistics and CAQCAS. The results showed that, despite the difficulties encountered and teachers and students' frequent inability to use digital technologies, instructors at all levels believed virtual classrooms to be useful as additional support to teaching and learning.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121996046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Review of the Coronavirus Impact on Higher Education Institutions and Opportunity of Information Technology Applications in Collaborative Work","authors":"Kamalendu Pal","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the challenge to the higher education sector during the coronavirus pandemic. It also presents the lack of preparedness in crisis management and digital education responses of higher education teaching and learning practice. Given that higher education institutions and the student community faced distinct challenges, policy responses and their implications have valuable lessons to learn. The chapter highlights research gaps, including researching the impact on lesser-developed countries, the psychological impact of transition, and the essential role of management in handling the pandemic. It also highlights that the general objective should be to build more resilient higher education teaching and learning delivery systems that are responsive and adaptive to future crises. London's City University decided to move off-campus and into a digital work environment responding to the current pandemic. A case study in the application of an undergraduate software engineering team-based project teaching and learning practice follows.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124478577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hybrid and Virtual Educational Simulation Games (vESGs) for the Remote Learning Era","authors":"Jeremy Riel, K. Lawless","doi":"10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-9235-9.ch004","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual educational simulation games (vESGs) promote unique combinations of learning interactions and affordances to create environments with which students can engage to effectively learn about complex phenomena and processes in multiple domains. Using the GlobalEd vESG as an example case throughout the chapter, the authors discuss (1) the key functions and experiences that vESGs provide to learners; (2) the types of valuable student interactions that can be expected when playing a vESG and strategies for maximizing these interactions for learning; (3) strategies for teacher implementation and adaptation of vESGs, as well as professional development programs to support their use of vESGs in classrooms; and (4) observed benefits of using vESGs as evidenced from over a decade of implementation of the GlobalEd vESG in authentic classroom settings.","PeriodicalId":351159,"journal":{"name":"Preparing Faculty for Technology Dependency in the Post-COVID-19 Era","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125781546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}