Written by: Soulaymane Kachani, Catherine Ross and Amanda Irvin
Published by: Inside Higher Ed
MBA News Digest Comment: None.
Extracted Content: After more than a year of teaching during a massive disruption for higher education, many people are asking what lies ahead for teaching and learning in a post-pandemic world. Predictions abound about how HyFlex classrooms, and educational technologies like Zoom and LMS platforms, will continue to shape teaching as we and our students return to campus.
While technology has indeed allowed us to continue teaching as our campuses were vacated, it should not constitute the focus of our assessment of what needs to change in the teaching realm. This forced experiment in hybrid and online education has opened a wide window into the fundamental ways institutions and instructors think about teaching and learning: how rigor is defined, what role community plays in student learning, whether or not giving grades is always the best way to respond to student work and a host of other previously “normal” teaching behaviors that for many instructors have never been open for questioning.