How and why? Technology and practices used by university mathematics lecturers for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic | Zendy

Eabhnat Ní Fhloinn | Zendy; Olivia Fitzmaurice | Zendy

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How and why? Technology and practices used by university mathematics lecturers for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic

Author(s) -

Eabhnat Ní Fhloinn,

Olivia Fitzmaurice

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

teaching mathematics and its applications an international journal of the ima

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.452

H-Index - 18

eISSN - 1471-6976

pISSN - 0268-3679

DOI - 10.1093/teamat/hrab018

Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , notation , online teaching , mathematics education , software , medical education , computer science , psychology , medicine , mathematics , programming language , virology , outbreak , arithmetic , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)

The COVID-19 pandemic led to closures of university campuses around the world from March 2020 onwards. With little or no time for preparation, lecturers turned to emergency remote teaching to continue to educate their students. Online mathematics education poses particular challenges in terms of both the hardware and software necessary for effective teaching, due to issues with mathematical symbols and notation, among others. In this paper, we report upon an online survey of 257 university mathematics lecturers across 29 countries, which explores what hardware and software they used for emergency remote teaching, for what purposes they used these and what training and support were made available to them at the time. We also consider what approaches they took to emergency remote teaching and what were their reasons for this.

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