Open AccessCross-cultural effects of COVID-19 on higher education learning and teaching practice: A case study from Greece
Author(s) -
Margarita Kefalaki,
Michael Nevradakis,
Qing Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of university teaching and learning practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1449-9789
DOI - 10.53761/1.18.5.5
Subject(s) - pandemic , curriculum , covid-19 , cross cultural , higher education , focus group , cultural diversity , study abroad , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , medical education , sociology , political science , medicine , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , anthropology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
COVID-19 has greatly impacted all aspects of our everyday lives. A global pandemic of this magnitude, even as we now emerge from strict measures such as lockdowns and await the potential for a ‘new tomorrow’ with the arrival of vaccines, will certainly have long-lasting consequences. We will have to adapt and learn to live in a different way. Accordingly, teaching and learning have also been greatly impacted. Changes to academic curricula have had tremendous cross-cultural effects on higher education students. This study will investigate, by way of focus groups comprised of students studying at Greek universities during the pandemic, the cross-cultural effects that this ‘global experience’ has had on higher education, and particularly on students in Greek universities. The data collection tools are interviews and observations gathered from focus groups.