Factors Shaping Faculty Online Teaching Competencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Trevisan, Ottavia; De Rossi, Marina; Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald; Smits, Anneke
Titel	Factors Shaping Faculty Online Teaching Competencies during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Quelle	In: Educational Technology Research and Development, 71 (2023) 1, S.79-98 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Trevisan, Ottavia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-1629
DOI	10.1007/s11423-023-10197-1
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Web Based Instruction; Teacher Competencies; Technology Integration; COVID-19; Pandemics; Affordances; Electronic Learning; Predictor Variables; Institutional Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Web Based Training; Lehrkunst; Prädiktor
Abstract	In the rush for the COVID-19 pandemic's online transition, the pursuit of quality online learning was frequently overshadowed by the urgency of emergency instruction online. As blended and online teaching became an integral part of education, there emerged a need to investigate how faculty coped with this transition and what competencies they might be acquiring. In this paper, we report on international research about higher education faculty's elicited dispositions and needs while they engaged with online teaching (OT), as these shape aspects of teacher competencies for integrating technology. This study aims to identify factors that shaped faculty competencies as pandemic restrictions forced transitions to OT. Snapshot surveys were conducted at two different phases of the pandemic, i.e. during the acceleration phase and the stasis one, approximately twelve months later. The surveys inquired about internal (e.g. enthusiasm and resolutions) and external (e.g. support) factors of faculty's OT perceptions during two phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling monitoring of the phenomenon beyond the assessment of the first response to the emergency. Results revealed different patterns of dispositions and diverse uses of technological affordances to foster online learning. These patterns were also found to differ over time, highlighting conditions possibly enabling or hindering the development of competencies for OT during different phases of the pandemic. One important finding is that there was a change from internal confidence to institutional support being a strong predictor of intentions to continue OT, over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01