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Effective Emergency Online Teaching

Huzova, Klaudia LU and Borafia, Jessica Amina (2022) INFM10 20221
Department of Informatics
Abstract (Swedish)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators had to conduct emergency online teaching from
home. This rapid switch required a lot of individual learning for teachers, even those who had conducted planned online teaching before the health crisis, impacting their effectiveness. As teachers adapted to their digital teaching environments, they faced technical challenges with teaching tools and increasing cybersecurity concerns, while they no longer had access to onsite IT support. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to study the measures contributing to the effectiveness of online teaching propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the experiences of five Informatics teachers working at five different universities across Sweden, from... (More)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators had to conduct emergency online teaching from
home. This rapid switch required a lot of individual learning for teachers, even those who had conducted planned online teaching before the health crisis, impacting their effectiveness. As teachers adapted to their digital teaching environments, they faced technical challenges with teaching tools and increasing cybersecurity concerns, while they no longer had access to onsite IT support. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to study the measures contributing to the effectiveness of online teaching propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the experiences of five Informatics teachers working at five different universities across Sweden, from the early stages of the COVID-19 up until 2022. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to gain insight into how the educators dealt with the aforementioned challenges. Partly in line with existing research, the findings indicate that readiness is the essential measure influencing the effectiveness of emergency online teaching, while it can be decomposed into the following sub-measures: (i) prior experience, (ii) technological infrastructure, (iii) online culture, (iv) combination of different teaching techniques and (v) protection against intrusion. (Less)
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author
Huzova, Klaudia LU and Borafia, Jessica Amina
supervisor
organization
course
INFM10 20221
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Emergency Online Teaching, Effective Online Teaching, Teaching Tools, Cybersecurity, IT Support
report number
INF22-04
language
English
id
9082452
date added to LUP
2022-09-07 09:35:01
date last changed
2022-09-07 09:35:01
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  abstract     = {{Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, educators had to conduct emergency online teaching from
home. This rapid switch required a lot of individual learning for teachers, even those who had conducted planned online teaching before the health crisis, impacting their effectiveness. As teachers adapted to their digital teaching environments, they faced technical challenges with teaching tools and increasing cybersecurity concerns, while they no longer had access to onsite IT support. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to study the measures contributing to the effectiveness of online teaching propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores the experiences of five Informatics teachers working at five different universities across Sweden, from the early stages of the COVID-19 up until 2022. Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to gain insight into how the educators dealt with the aforementioned challenges. Partly in line with existing research, the findings indicate that readiness is the essential measure influencing the effectiveness of emergency online teaching, while it can be decomposed into the following sub-measures: (i) prior experience, (ii) technological infrastructure, (iii) online culture, (iv) combination of different teaching techniques and (v) protection against intrusion.}},
  author       = {{Huzova, Klaudia and Borafia, Jessica Amina}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Effective Emergency Online Teaching}},
  year         = {{2022}},
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