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Teaching And Learning Under Covid-19 Public Health Edicts: The Role Of Household Lockdowns And Prior Technology Usage, Neil Guppy, David Boud, Tania Heap, Dominique Verpoorten, Uwe Matzat, Joanna Tai, Louise Lutze-Mann, Mary Roth, Patsie Polly, Jamie-Lee Burgess, Jenilyn L. Agapito, Silvia K. Bartolic
Teaching And Learning Under Covid-19 Public Health Edicts: The Role Of Household Lockdowns And Prior Technology Usage, Neil Guppy, David Boud, Tania Heap, Dominique Verpoorten, Uwe Matzat, Joanna Tai, Louise Lutze-Mann, Mary Roth, Patsie Polly, Jamie-Lee Burgess, Jenilyn L. Agapito, Silvia K. Bartolic
Department of Information Systems & Computer Science Faculty Publications
Public health edicts necessitated by COVID-19 prompted a rapid pivot to remote online teaching and learning. Two major consequences followed: households became students' main learning space, and technology became the sole medium of instructional delivery. We use the ideas of "digital disconnect" and "digital divide" to examine, for students and faculty, their prior experience with, and proficiency in using, learning technology. We also explore, for students, how household lockdowns and digital capacity impacted learning. Our findings are drawn from 3806 students and 283 faculty instructors from nine higher education institutions across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. For instructors, we …