Designing For Academic Resilience in Hands-On Courses in Times of Crisis

Two Models for Supporting Hands-On Online Learning Drawn From the Covid-19 Pandemic

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3757450
AutoresJulie A Schell (The University of Texas at Austin), Julie Schell (The University of Texas at Austin, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume67
Fascículo13
Páginas1632-1654
Data de publicação2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642221118292
OpenAlexW4317905200
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas24

Expanding on academic continuity planning research in higher education, this article presents two models for transitioning hands-on coursework online. Integrating precedent, case study, and autoethnography methods, the article analyzes higher education leadership and faculty decision-making within the context of the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic at The College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. When COVID-19 closed campuses worldwide, 98% of over 1,200 College of Fine Arts class sections were happening in-person; most of those courses required hands-on, applied learning, which is challenging to translate online. With few exceptions, these courses not only continued, but they also demonstrated academic resilience-the ability to survive, adapt, and grow. Academic continuity and planning researchers have reached consensus that institutions need to support high-quality online coursework to effectively manage disruptions; the problem presented in this article is that extant academic continuity models too often conceptualize faculty, students, and staff as a single user with a set of common characteristics and needs related to online learning. Such generalized conceptualizations lead to academic continuity planning strategies and tactics that do not account for the variegated complexities involved in online hands-on education

Closure (psychology) · Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Coursework · Crisis management · Distance education · Extant taxon · Higher education · Learning Management · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Resilience (materials science) · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Computer Science · COVID-19 and Mental Health · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology