Open Access"Kaikille okei"- Everyone alright? Shifting topics and practices in language students' chat during the global covid-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Anu Muhonen,
Elisa Räsänen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of teaching and learning with technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2165-2554
DOI - 10.14434/jotlt.v10i1.31565
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , sociology , pedagogy , medical education , mathematics education , computer science , psychology , medicine , virology , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
In this paper we will introduce a pedagogical blended learning project where students of Finnish as a foreign language in two North American universities come together in a collaborative virtual chat as one of their course assignments. We will further discuss how this practice took new turns upon the emergence of the global pandemic lockdown.