Open AccessLatin, Teaching and COVID-19: Reflections and Suggestions
Author(s) -
Andrea Balbo
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
educazione linguistica language education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2280-6792
DOI - 10.30687/elle/2280-6792/2021/01/004
Subject(s) - covid-19 , context (archaeology) , everyday life , online teaching , distance education , pandemic , latin americans , sociology , pedagogy , mathematics education , psychology , political science , medicine , history , law , virology , disease , archaeology , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This article aims to discuss the regulatory and legal problems caused to teaching activities by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Italian schools and it focuses on the first results of the impact of COVID-19 on Latin teaching activities, highlighting some good practices that might be used in future in the everyday life of students and teachers. In particular, it focuses on the role of online open access resources, underlying the difference between digital teaching and distance learning and teaching. At the end, the article discusses also the future perspectives of teaching classics in a context where distance teaching seems still far from being abandoned.