Aims:
Identify distance and e-learning models/approaches used for successful global delivery
Discuss challenges facing localisation, nationalisation and globalisation of distance and e-learning
Discuss how COVID-19 has affected e-learning models/approaches
The special track is aimed at higher education providers currently delivering distance or e-learning programmes on a national or global scale, and those reflecting on successes and challenges of distance/e-learning delivery during COVID-19. The track is also relevant to digital and technology providers who have insight into the latest platforms for distance/e-learning delivery. This extends to:
Technologies in provision and delivery (e.g. novel use of technology and/or digital platforms in the delivery of distance/e-learning);
Reflection on provision and delivery modalities (e.g. how teachers and students have adapted to online teaching and learning);
Transitions from face-to-face to distance learning delivery (e.g. face-to-face delivery that was pivoted to e-learning following COVID-19);
Transitions from national to international e-learning delivery.
David Sims, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk
Georgina Stebbings, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk
Adrian Burden, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk
Christopher Mackintosh, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk
Sean Maudsley-Barton, Manchester Metropolitan University, Uk