Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic brought many challenges in higher education. All teaching and learning activities were moved online. Universities had to provide adapted solutions to facilitate learning and maintain students’ engagement. Online education implies creating new learning environments with the help of digital technologies. Beyond the process of acquisition of knowledge, teachers needed to facilitate cooperative learning, build positive relations, and reduce negative emotions. We provide some expert insights based on empirical observations on teaching and assessment practices connected with psychology models applied in education. The aim of the paper is to formulate specific learning design recommendations for developing effective didactic strategies and addressing the current worldwide critical issue: dealing with digitization of higher education in the immediate future. We propose a model of university classes aimed at bringing together our experience as teachers of psychology and didactics with evidence-based cognitive-educational theories and practices. The result is an example of an instructional work-model based on the complex dynamic between cognitive, emotional-motivational, and social aspects of learning in online settings. The effectiveness of university teaching in the post-digital era is strongly connected with the ability to create cognitive-transferable learning experiences, emotionally safe learning environments, while promoting an active autonomy-focused approach for self-regulated learning.
Highlights
Education is always affected by the context in which it is enacted
COVID-19 pandemic has launched a digital revolution in higher education, bringing a lot of important changes in a very short time (Strielkowski and Wang, 2020)
The effectiveness of university teaching in the post-digital era is strongly connected with the ability to create cognitive-transferable learning experiences, emotionally safe learning environments, and promoting an autonomy-focused approach for self-regulated learning
Summary
Education is always affected by the context in which it is enacted. From local specificity to regional and global perspectives, 2020s COVID-19 pandemic profoundly impacted individuals and communities all over the world. Some trends in attitudes and behaviors which emerged in the last years became the new realities: a growth in the use of social media, more cultural and social gaps, a rise in anti-intellectualism in public life, changes in educational patterns, climate change, new labor market disparities, digitization etc. (Madalinska-Michalak et al, 2018). COVID-19 pandemic has launched a digital revolution in higher education, bringing a lot of important changes in a very short time (Strielkowski and Wang, 2020). Digital tools appeared as a universal solution for education, ready to welcome cohorts of students and teachers
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