About this Research Topic
With our Research Topic, we would like to explore the various ways in which the pandemic has forced educators and researchers to challenge the traditional notions of teaching and learning in the university classroom, and the long-term influence and the possible changes for the future of university teaching and learning. We would like to invite researchers to describe the challenges the concept of teaching in traditional university lecture halls is facing, the lessons they learned from their individual experiences and how the design of university learning and teaching will be shaped for a progressive university practice.
We are welcoming empirical, theoretical and meta-analysis submissions in the areas such as (but not limited to):
- Hybrid synchronous learning activities (and technical as well as educational challenges).
- Big courses and interaction.
- Novel approaches to hands-on, labs and project based courses.
- Innovative use of hardware / software in hybrid synchronous and/or asynchronous learning activities beyond LMS & video conference systems (e.g. tangible user interfaces, customized software applications, classroom orchestration systems).
- How to handle students' current expectations after pandemic practice?
- New formats and media for in person (hybrid) courses.
- Back to pre-pandemic or new normal? Which traditional practices should be preserved and which new practices integrated?
Keywords: novel pedagogies, innovative technologies for education, design of physical spaces, roomware, hybrid & blended approaches, student engagement
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.