Emergency remote teaching in higher education: Mapping the first global online semester (Dataset)
Description
This dataset is for the article, 'Emergency remote teaching in higher education: Mapping the first global online semester'. Abstract: Due to the Covid-19 pandemic that spread globally in 2020, higher education courses were subsequently offered in fully remote, online formats. A plethora of primary studies began investigating a range of topics exploring teaching and learning in higher education, particularly during the initial semester. In order to provide an overview and initial understanding of this emerging research field, a systematic mapping review was conducted that collates and describes the characteristics of 282 primary empirical studies. Findings reveal that research has been carried out mostly descriptively and cross-sectionally, focusing predominantly on undergraduate students and their perceptions of teaching and learning during the pandemic. Studies originate from a broad range of countries, are overwhelmingly published open access, and largely focused on the fields of Health & Welfare and Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Statistics. Educational technology used for emergency remote teaching are most often synchronous collaborative tools, used in combination with text-based tools. The findings are discussed against pre-pandemic research on educational technology use in higher education teaching and learning, and perspectives for further research are provided. Bond, M., Bedenlier, S., Marín, V. I., & Händel, M. (2021, March 15). Emergency remote teaching in higher education: Mapping the first global online semester (Pre-print). https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/gsdu7