Reflective Teaching in the Virtual Workplace in Higher Education

Abstract

The recent global pandemic, COVID-19, has compelled the higher education sector to resort to virtual mode of teaching from the traditional methods of classroom teaching thereby causing a huge paradigm shift. In order to make online learning a more positive and meaningful learning experience teachers must resort to reflective teaching. Reflective teaching is a skilled procedure that requires teachers to take logical decisions on their own teaching pedagogy, actions and provide meaningful guidance to students for better learning outcomes. Conscious lean educational leadership can holistically transform and enhance the leadership aptitude and responsibilities of academic communities virtually. The purpose of this chapter is to integrate reflective teaching as an innovative strategy in virtual mode for the development of conscious lean educational leadership in higher education. The findings yield that conscious lean educational leadership can serve as a great means to boost teachers’ morale and enrich their understanding during worldwide crisis. Reflective teaching can assist teachers to effectively contribute to virtual academic workplace through online educational tools. This chapter complements to extant literature on the amalgamation of conscious lean educational leadership by exploring how reflective teaching can assist to achieve the desired organizational goals in the virtual academic workplace.