Emergency Move to Remote Teaching: Implication for Faculty's Perceptions and Instructional Practices

• In Event: Online Teaching During COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Our study focuses on the recent emergency move from face-to-face to remote teaching in higher education due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. This survey study examines how this novel phenomenon affected the perceptions and teaching experiences among faculty members who used to teach courses on campus and then suddenly switched to remote delivery of their courses during Spring 2020. Our findings suggest that the extent to which faculty perceived remote teaching as easy or satisfying is closely associated with their degree of adjustment, their level of comfort toward remote teaching, and whether their course was suitable for online instruction. Additionally, faculty reported benefiting more from resources for remote teaching provided within their college, compared to other university-wide resources.

Authors

• Jeonghyun Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Farahnaz Soleimani, Georgia Institute of Technology