In transition: Reflections on liminality and COVID-19 in the AD environment
In the past three months of radical uncertainty and upheaval, academic developers – like everyone else – have had to cope with incisive change.
Students, higher education, and COVID-19: toward new possibilities
In the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching and learning in higher education across the United States – and also in many places around the world – evolved rapidly, if unevenly, due to the convergence of three trends.
Care and connection: understanding the lived experiences during COVID-19
We are living through truly extraordinary times; a period of time defined by tremendous uncertainty, change and anxiety. Higher education has had to - quite literally - flip a switch and move to online teaching or, rather, emergency remote teaching (ERT), in an effort to continue and hopefully complete the 2020 academic year. This move to ERT, whilst terrifying, is perhaps an attempt to ensure some level of routine and “normalcy” is maintained when focusing on teaching and learning.
Trauma-informed teaching & learning: teaching in time of uncertainties
Many of us, along with our students, are experiencing stress, anxiety, and even trauma. How can we not? Our brains do an amazing job to keep us alive—constantly scanning the environment looking for and responding to threats and dangers.
Tutor partnerships to promote students’ engagement and personal wellbeing during COVID-19
Tutoring is at the heart of every university teaching and learning process designed to improve students’ success rates and to enable students to achieve their learning goals.
