Eyewitnesses to the Suddenly Online Paradigm Shift in Education: Perspectives on the Experience, Sustaining Effective Teaching and Learning, and Forecasts for the Future.

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Title:	Eyewitnesses to the Suddenly Online Paradigm Shift in Education: Perspectives on the Experience, Sustaining Effective Teaching and Learning, and Forecasts for the Future.
Authors:	Chandler, Robert C.¹, Burton, Brian G.², Wallace, J. D.², Darby, Douglas G.³
Source:	Journal of Literacy & Technology. Fall2020, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p5-13. 9p.
Subject Terms:	COVID-19 pandemic, Effective teaching, COVID-19, Witnesses, Eyewitness accounts
Abstract:	Introducing this special issue of the Journal of Literacy and Technology, the second part of the two-part special issues focusing on the COVID-19 "suddenly online" transition to remote/virtual eLearning modalities during the Spring of 2020. This article introduces the emergency voices from the field arising from the COVID-19 "suddenly online" transition to remote/virtual eLearning modalities during the Spring of 2020. This rare, and perhaps "once in a lifetime" momentous COVID-19 pandemic induced a paradigmatic shift in teaching and learning modalities. The first-hand eyewitness accounts which emerged from the turbulent months of the "suddenly online" transition in education are important to capture direct reports from participant observers of the experience. That in this case, many of these participant-observers are also trained educators, academic researchers, and able to provide meta-perspectives on those experiences makes recollections, reports, and perspectives even more remarkable and essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	Introducing this special issue of the Journal of Literacy and Technology, the second part of the two-part special issues focusing on the COVID-19 "suddenly online" transition to remote/virtual eLearning modalities during the Spring of 2020. This article introduces the emergency voices from the field arising from the COVID-19 "suddenly online" transition to remote/virtual eLearning modalities during the Spring of 2020. This rare, and perhaps "once in a lifetime" momentous COVID-19 pandemic induced a paradigmatic shift in teaching and learning modalities. The first-hand eyewitness accounts which emerged from the turbulent months of the "suddenly online" transition in education are important to capture direct reports from participant observers of the experience. That in this case, many of these participant-observers are also trained educators, academic researchers, and able to provide meta-perspectives on those experiences makes recollections, reports, and perspectives even more remarkable and essential. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	15350975