Update: Data collection is closed and our manuscript has been published. Thank you to everyone who participated.
You can find it at: Article Teacher Experiences in Converting Classes to Distance Learni...
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If you have converted any courses to distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic, please take a few minutes to complete this survey. The researchers are asking higher education faculty of all disciplines around the world to address their experiences in changing their classes from face-to-face instruction to online or other kinds of distance learning.
Please complete the survey now, so you don't forget. The survey is 18 questions (most are Likert scales), plus demographics.
The link to the survey is: https://forms.gle/qX522tiJsPNbgsGF9
This survey is completely anonymous and will not collect any information that can identify you. All categories of higher education faculty are welcome to participate, including all full-time and adjunct faculty.
Most scholarly literature published so far about teaching during COVID-19 has been conceptual in nature, or case studies at a specific school or geographic region. The Researchers hope that this study will provide a broader context.
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone you think may be interested in participating.
Thank you for your participation in this study.
(Time is of the essence because the journal we are submitting to needs our manuscript by the end of May 2020.)
Pandemic Teaching Experiences Questionnaire submitted and recommended!!
you can do some research in WHO site to have a view on the subject
Dear dr. Michael W. Marek
Yes, I want to participate.
Best regards
Dear dr. Michael W. Marek
Yes, we can help.
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Done. Hope to hear about your results. This period has been very challenging. I myself registered for |Online Instructional design course to improve my performance with my students.
This is really a challenging period in Africa as many countries are not ready or neither do they have any plans for this pandemic, so this had in turn grounded so many teaching and learning activities.
Dear Dr. Michael W. Marek, First and foremost I am overwhelmed with your request however Im from Philippines and we are to implement this school year a new system or design of teaching due to covid-19 thus I can not give an exact answers for your questionnare. Hope you understand...Thank you very much and god bless
George Fronda The questionnaire is for the faculty who had to convert classes in for the Spring semester. If you had to do that for the current semester that is in progress (or just concluded) the survey is for you.
I think that many faculty do not know for sure what will happen in the fall semester. My school has said that it intends to have in-person classes, but the final situation will be based on what is happening with virus infections when class resumes.
Hussin Jose Hejase This survey is for an invited paper for a special issue of an educational technology journal. I should not say which journal yet, but when it is published, or when I can share a pre-press version, I will add it to my profile.
I have also created a project for this research you can follow:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Teacher-Experiences-with-COVID-19-Class-Conversions
Finished survey. I am not sure what you can do about it, but questions #5 and 6 seem to be double-barrel questions. Also, if you or people you know have some in-process research I have a call out in a rapid response (abstracts due May 30) international journal due out Fall 2020. See the link below.
http://www.literacyandtechnology.org/cfp-guest-issue-fall-2020.htm
Teaching through video conference. For this, instead of the timings of the teacher, the timings convenient to the student has to be ascertained. If different timings are suggested, then recorded version has to be transmitted and the student can ask questions or doubts through e mail which will be clarified later. This would reach substantially. The reason for this suggestion is that there may not be a conducive learning atmosphere in the home of the student at times prescribed by the institute.
Professor Marek:
I took the survey and was disappointed as the demographic questions were asked first. Do you really care who answers the survey or do you want to know about the transitions from on-ground to online and the impact it had on faculty and students? The support questions did not provide an n/a response as those of us that have been teaching online did not need to do a lot of transitioning!
Doris Yates I have seen an estimate of over 12 million tertiary education teachers around the world and, at most, our survey will have a few hundred respondents, so we feel that the demographic profile is important to interpreting the results. So far we have a good mix of faculty ages, disciplines, academic ranks, etc. If, for example, we were to be weighted heavily in one or two particular disciplines or age groups, it would color the results.
You may be right about the NA option, however, we did a pilot study and also asked for face validity from experts and they did not raise this question. I have also been teaching online courses for around seven years and I probably would have selected "enough to get by."
Our campus technology folks did have to do some special setup and configuration of our Learning Management System. Although I did not need additional training, they scheduled several short-term classes for faculty who had never used the LMS before. Of course, the training was on using the LMS and not pedagogy for online instruction.
Professor Marek:
Demographic info is important but at the end of the survey not at the beginning! You want responses to the reason for the survey at the start and an option for demographics at the end!
Fadel Lynda and May Ling González -- Thank you very much for taking the time to complete this survey!
I am not sure if this fits your situation, but if it does or if you know of someone that is looking for an outlet for rapid online onboarding there is a call for abstracts by May 30th that this might be a good fit for. -jd
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rapid-response-elearning-scholarship-j-d-wallace/
J. D. Wallace Thank you for the suggestion. It happens that our survey is for an invited paper in a special issue of a different educational technology journal.
My Dear:
This link talk about: Coronavirus: When teaching during a disaster, students need to be partners
https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-when-teaching-during-a-disaster-students-need-to-be-partners-136695
I just see this... we are conducting some research on this, and we need tertiary educators to respond to a survey. We will share our findings with all participants. Please consider responding to the survey and share it with as many professors around the world as possible. Thanks in advance!
https://forms.gle/m5nGVzJjBKZCygoS9
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