Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: Personal Reflections, Student Surveys and Pre-COVID Comparative Data - Open Journal of Social Sciences

JSS > Vol.9 No.2, February 2021

Open Journal of Social Sciences

Volume 9, Issue 2 (February 2021)

ISSN Print: 2327-5952 ISSN Online: 2327-5960

Google-based Impact Factor: 1.63 Citations

Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: Personal Reflections, Student Surveys and Pre-COVID Comparative Data ()

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DOI: 10.4236/jss.2021.92003 706 Downloads 2,405 Views Citations

Author(s)

Tariq Khraishi

Affiliation(s)

Mechanical Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

ABSTRACT

Online teaching has emerged powerfully worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper recounts the personal experience of the author teaching his first full-time virtual course online in a synchronous fashion. The author provides back reflection on his Fall 2020 course enumerating advantages and disadvantages for virtual teaching versus in-person teaching. The author also gathered student feedback in the form of a survey on their first fully-immersed COVID experience as a full online live course. Data comparing the pre-COVID course grades and course evaluations to the COVID outcomes are also provided. Based on the survey and grades/course evaluations comparisons, it is concluded that the shift to pure online teaching was successful.

KEYWORDS

Virtual Teaching, Online Learning, COVID-19 Pandemic, In-Person Teaching, Teaching Modality

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Khraishi, T. (2021) Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: Personal Reflections, Student Surveys and Pre-COVID Comparative Data. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 9, 39-53. doi: 10.4236/jss.2021.92003.

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