Abstract
The global health threat caused by Covid-19 has resulted for schools, colleges, and universities to temporarily shutting down physical operations. The Philippine education sector, in particular, shifted from face-to-face interactions to emergency remote education. However, the question relies on the context that the majority of educators are trained and products of traditional teaching and learning environment. And since there is an urgency to adapt to emergency remote education and implementation of face-to-face in-service trainings, seminars, and workshops are prohibited, the idea of shifting to webinars has been seen as a way for educators to still engage in continuous professional development even at a distance. It cannot be denied that there is also a paucity of research about educators’ webinar experiences during this time of uncertainty. Hence, using qualitative case study research, this study investigates the experiences of higher education instructors with regard to in-service training webinars and how this addresses and helps them to adapt to the sudden change of educational context. More importantly, there were three themes that emerged in this study: flexibility in engaging in lifelong learning practices, openness to alternative delivery of in-service training programs, and thirst for digital literacy skills improvement. The paper concludes with the overall findings and its implication to emergency remote education.
Highlights
Over the past years, technological advancement brought vital changes to education
The first one highlights the idea that despite the distance brought about by the pandemic crisis, the use of webinar in-service training programs paved the way for educators to continuously engage in learning anytime, anywhere, or having the idea of flexibility in engaging in lifelong learning practices
This study contributes to the ongoing discussions about emergency remote education in a time of uncertainties and the pandemic crisis
Summary
The integration of technology into education offers new and innovative teaching and learning ways. There were some researchers and educational leaders who explored technology in education over the past years, the current pandemic crisis paved the way for them to rethink and revisit the importance of strengthening and integrating educational technology in today’s teaching and learning environment. The global disturbance caused by Covid-19 brought inevitable changes and challenges to everyone When it hit the whole world, technological innovations in education became the number one used resource for continuing education. Educational leaders continuously face these challenges since the situation in the context of education is different from what is practiced. This phenomenon left them to make tough decisions on what to do and act (Data Quality Campaign, 2020)
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