Open AccessFrom pandemic to endemic: Examining transitions in blended learning in teacher education
Author(s) -
Shamini Thilarajah,
Renuka Nasendran
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.14742/ascilite2021.0135
Subject(s) - blended learning , pandemic , feeling , covid-19 , intuition , pedagogy , psychology , mathematics education , sociology , public relations , medical education , educational technology , political science , medicine , social psychology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , cognitive science
One year ago, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that COVID-19 was a pandemic. Twelve months on, we reflect on the educational change in Singapore and embrace the need to constantly re-imagine blended learning for living and learning with COVID-19. Using Dr Roger Greenaway’s four F's of active reviewing - Facts, Feelings, Findings & Future as the structure, this paper first presents the study of the transitions in blended learning of higher education pre-, during and post-pandemic lockdown. This review placed a spotlight on many gaps. Hence, this paper discusses pertinent issues following the review, particularly COVID-19 accelerated remote teaching, the ‘Blended Learning@NIE’ policy, and the policy-making process. This paper also reports the preliminary result of the policy implementation through the end-of-semester evaluation. The result is congruent with the feelings to develop digital fluency as teacher intuition for designing, developing and facilitating more meaningful blended learning experiences.