COVID-19 and Online Teaching: Factors Supporting Implementation of a Forced Educational Change on Disadvantaged Students

• In Event: Educational Change SIG Posters

Abstract

A century after the influenza pandemic, the onset of the latest global pandemic —COVID-19, triggered disruption in education. The push for social distancing kept students at home demanding for remote teaching on digital platforms, and a surge in the use of educational tools such as Zoom conferencing and virtual tutoring. One effect was transferring the third year of Project STEMulate—a National Science Foundation program—to online. Project’s goal was to stimulate and advance the STEM interest and skills of underserved Native Hawai'ians and/or low-income, first-generation college-bound students. For summer of 2020, challenges were investigating the effects of the program, and exploring obstacles faced by teachers and students given the sudden move to a virtual realm.

Authors

• Nahid Nariman, non profit organization

• Jaymee Nanasi Davis, University of Hawaii