Proposing a Framework for Virtual Teaching at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI)

Abstract

Background: Digital education aims at minimising interferences to education among challenging times during COVID-19, and empowering students to experience new tools and resources at the same time creating a safe place for educators to have control over the teaching process. Aims: With this study, project CREATE aimed at examining the experiences of academic students with their first weeks of online teaching post COVID-19. The specific aim was to map their experiences and acquire knowledge in order to make necessary short-term adjustments in the subsequent rounds of online teaching through proposing the structure for online teaching framework. Method: This framework is based on identifying students’ perspectives with a distributed survey towards virtual teaching in the timeframe of pre and post COVID-19 restrictions situations. Results: The results provide a framework for accessing methods and content in the form of delivery formats needed to be included in the curriculum for specialty development of online teaching. Conclusion: The methodology and results presented in this study may prove useful to educational institutions determine to target professional development curricula for students, with the criteria and skills needed to successfully organize online teaching.