Managing the Change From On-Site to Online: Transforming ESL courses for teachers

Cheng, Liying; Myles, Johanne

doi:10.1080/0268051032000054103

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“…There was a constant ‘coming and going’ between the two settings: they adapted pre-existing teaching practices for the SL environment, but they would also use those refined skills in a traditional classroom setting, as commented. This finding confirms the claims made by Cheng and Myles ( 2003 ), who stated that skills should be transferred between contexts to build upon the other. Additionally, their professional identity and agency were also modified by the exposure to the new teaching context (An, 2021 ; McQuirter, 2020 ).…”

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confidence: 91%

In-between worlds: Chilean university lecturers’ experiences of teaching transition between face-to-face and virtual reality contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dai

García

Olave-Encina

2023

Education Tech Research Dev

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The advent of new technology is breaking the boundaries of traditional teaching and learning patterns with virtual worlds (VW) creating new frontiers in education. Previous research has explored the use of VW within educational settings. However, limited studies have investigated the transition processes that educators experience by adopting VW based online tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. This qualitative exploratory study investigated 18 Chilean lecturers’ teaching experiences using a three-dimensional computer-mediated environment: Second Life. Findings suggest that changing from traditional to virtual teaching context is a complex process, which (re)shaped the lecturers’ various senses of identity and agency towards different instructional approaches resulting in the sense of in-betweenness with multiple digital competencies. These changes indicated that they taught in an ‘in-between’ mode mapped by different teaching mediations. The participants’ teaching experiences of shaping a sense of in-betweenness could provide a unique theoretical lens to explore instructors’ teaching experiences from traditional to a technology-mediated online setting.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%