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Titel | Rising Demand for Instructional Technologists: 2020's New Normal in the COVID-19 Pandemic |
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Quelle | In: Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 21 (2020) 3, S.65-67 (3 Seiten)
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1528-3518 |
Schlagwörter | Educational Technology; Online Courses; Distance Education; Electronic Learning; COVID-19; Pandemics; Educational Change; Universities; Media Specialists; Demand Occupations; Educational Demand; Instructional Design |
Abstract | Instructional technology helped to sustain learning in virtual environments when the novel coronavirus COVID-19 locked down campuses. This article is the success story of a large, public university in the southern United States, that smoothly transitioned into abrupt online learning with central support from instructional technologists. When unemployment was exponentially rising globally with COVID-19, the demand for instructional technologists was paradoxically rising. Amidst budgetary uncertainties, in April/May 2020, the university prioritized filling the positions of 18 instructional designers/multimedia specialists and learning technologist. Advancing with learner-centered education, the instructional technology program at the university is termed learning technologies. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |