Abstract
The purpose of this qualitative study was to get a better understanding of faculty members' views on the future of higher education by their first-time online teaching experiences during the Fall 2021 academic semester, which was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to the outbreak's rapid and widespread dissemination, it created a unique phenomenon that had a significant impact on faculty members who had no prior experience teaching courses entirely online. In order to conduct this qualitative research, purposive sampling was used to choose ten faculty members from a variety of disciplines who had at least ten years of experience teaching in a traditional classroom setting at a public university in Izmir, Turkey. Faculty members were asked about the future of higher education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from that, each faculty member was asked to discuss how the mandatory shift to online education altered their teaching style and how institutional help impacted their experiences throughout the pandemic. As a consequence of their observations and statements of their perspectives on events they witnessed and personally experienced, the key issue of "transformation of higher education with hybrid perspective" developed as a central theme. The data analysis revealed the following subthemes: "educators on the internet," "sustain and evolve," and "university support". These findings may be applied in a variety of contexts, including educational leadership and the design of hybrid and online courses, among other applications in higher education.
Highlights
Universities use online courses and programs to extend the higher education learning experience to students who reside outside the physical limits of their institutions' campuses
What do faculty members have in mind regarding the future of higher education as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?
The first research question was, “What do faculty members have in mind regarding the future of higher education as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic?” and it sought The COVID-19 pandemic has caused faculty members to rethink their perspectives on the future of higher education
Summary
Universities use online courses and programs to extend the higher education learning experience to students who reside outside the physical limits of their institutions' campuses. Many higher education institutions realize that instructional techniques, critical competencies and evaluation systems are being revolutionized by technology (Jensen, 2019; Arslan & Ulutaş, 2017). When faced with these constraints, students find that the conventional on-campus educational experience is not a reasonable strategy. For many students and faculty members, the COVID-19 pandemic was the trigger that brought them into contact with teaching and learning connections that took place entirely online in a virtual classroom setting for the first time. Academics and students must enter "unfamiliar territory" due to the necessity to quickly adjust to entire e-learning situations http://hes.ccsenet.org
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