Higher Education Instructors’ Beliefs and Conceptions about Remote Education during COVID-19
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https://doi.org/10.5944/ried.26.1.33966Keywords:
online learning, distance education, covid-19, information and communication technology, higher education, remote teachingAbstract
There are various factors which influence instructors’ and students’ experiences in an online or remote learning environment in higher education. These factors may be altered either positively or negatively as a result of an implementation experience of online learning. This risk is even more evident in scenarios such as the sanitary emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, when instructors suddenly had to adjust their learning environments into an online modality without enough time for preparation. This study aims at exploring how university faculty beliefs and their conceptions about en online teaching change after implementing a remote learning experience in the context of the sanitary emergency in a Colombian higher education institution. For this purpose, a pretest - posttest survey design was used to identify how instructors’ self-efficacy, their attitudes towards a reflective practice, their perceptions of institutional support, and their conceptions about online learning changed after completed the academic semester in remote modality; and the extent to which the instructors’ experience affects these changes. The results from this study suggest that the remote education experience increased the instructors’ self-efficacy and decreased their perceptions about institutional support. Likewise, the instructors’ experience in the remote learning environment had an effect on how their conceptions about technology-based assessments changed in this process.
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