Teaching & Learning Stakes and Perspectives Raised by the Lessons of the COVID-19 Era: A French/Japanese Comparative Insight

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic raised an unprecedented educational challenge that suddenly dropped the entire Higher Education world in a genuine paradigm shift. The 18 months spent since the beginning of this still ongoing crisis represent valuable hindsight for a first analysis and discussion of the moves and the trends the universities were involved in regarding the Teaching and Learning practices. They also represent an opportunity to highlight the dynamics that are already shaping their short and middle/long-term perspectives, especially related to ICT, through the angles of the faculty and stakeholders. This paper proposes a qualitative French/Japanese insight into these moves, trends, and dynamics, as the result of the first step of an ongoing international comparative study.