From COVID-19 to Adaptive Education in Times of Emergency and Crisis (I)

• In Event: Presidential Panel: From COVID-19 to Adaptive Education in Times of Emergency and Crisis (I)

Short Description

On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 outbreaks as a pandemic and a global health crisis. The pandemic has affected society and individuals on many levels and various aspects of life, including education. All over the world, schools and universities were mandatorily closed, moved online, or delivered in other alternative formats. The COVID-19 has forced us to adapt to emergency situations and seek innovative ways to continue to provide quality education to students in all kinds of settings, from K12 education to higher education. Such emergency situations have presented unprecedented challenges to educators, students, administrators, parents, and policymakers, and many other stakeholders. The urgent situation has called for a system-wide response to make a transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible modes of education. It has forced educators to explore various opportunities and possibilities for alternative forms to deliver education. All of this has compelled us to seek innovative ways and alternative solutions to education. Such a global and unprecedented situation has led us to many questions and inquiries. Research questions involve, but not limited to, the following: pedagogical issues, technological challenges, teacher professional development, issues of disparity, access and equity, and impact of government policies on education.

This panel discussion is intended to bring researchers and scholars from all over the world to 1) share their current practice and experiences in response to education during the COVID-19 pandemic,
2) reflect on and develop solutions for emergency education for the future, 3) engage in dialogues on strengthening teacher professional development with adaptive learning and instruction in response to emergency education, and 4) discuss the needs for educators and researchers to constantly update their repertoire of knowledge, pedagogy, and technology and be sensitive and responsive to the educational needs, both locally and globally.

Authors

• Presenter: Xun Ge, University of Oklahoma

• Presenter: Camille Dickson-Deane, University of Technology, Sydney

• Presenter: HuiChen Kung Durley, Oklahoma City Public Schools

• Presenter: In-sook Lee, Sejong University

• Presenter: Sahana Murthy, IIT Bombay

• Presenter: Katsuaki Suzuki, JSET Vice President, Kumamoto University

• Presenter: Yoshiko Goda, Kumamoto University

• Presenter: Tomomi TAKABAYASHI, Cyber University Japan

• Presenter: Jennifer Richardson, Purdue University

• Presenter: Xiaoqing Gu, ECNU

• Presenter: Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University

• Presenter: Florence Martin, University of North Carolina Charlotte