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Investigating the Effectiveness of Online Bioarchaeology Education through Participant Survey of a Cohort of International Adult Learners

“…Lockdowns and travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have required educators from numerous fields, including bioarchaeology, to offer crucial field training via online delivery (Douglass 2020; Douglass and Herr 2020; Hoggarth et al 2021; Pacifico and Robertson 2021; Scerri et al 2020). Although the educational impacts of this transition have been explored in anatomy (Bauler et al 2022; Papa et al 2022) and forensic anthropology (Moran 2022; Thompson et al 2020; Villavicencio-Queijeiro et al 2022), there has been little investigation on the impacts of online education within bioarchaeology. This reflects a broader deficit in educational research in this field, with existing studies being few, outdated, and limited in scope (e.g., Lacombe et al 2019; although see Spiros et al [2022] for an exception).…”