Whether in the workplace or anywhere else, the use of technologies of one kind or other impacts what we do, within it. A university is a workplace for us, academics and administrators, and it is in some ways a workplace for our students, who also need to take note of its norms and practices, and to adhere to whatever rules and regulations apply within it. A workplace, whether a university or any other, requires us to communicate with each other in a more formal way than is the case in our personal lives, whether this is using the medium of writing or instead via speaking to each other. Whilst speaking to each other was once confined to only either on the telephone or face to face in an office or some other on campus space, such is the technology these days that face to face now includes speaking to each other via technologies such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and similar. Indeed, at the time of writing this editorial, whilst we are all still being affected in one way or another by the global pandemic, many of the formal meetings that, prior to this, were conducted on campus are now being conducted in the online environment, only. For many academics, this is very unfamiliar territory indeed, and it is not without its considerable challenges, particularly for those of us who are not used to either attending or running meetings online but, more importantly, have had little or no experience of running our lectures and seminars online, too, whilst sitting at home. As with everything in any workplace, had the transition been carefully planned, and had we had a satisfactorily long period of time for the necessary training and development needed to make the considerable changes needed, this may perhaps have been less of a culture shock for many of us. And, certainly, it would have meant less work to do in such an incredibly short timescale; making fundamental changes of the type required is hugely time and effort intensive, naturally enough.

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第22卷第1期社论

无论在工作场所还​​是在其他任何地方，一种或其他类型技术的使用都会影响我们在其中所做的工作。大学是我们，学者和行政管理人员的工作场所，从某种意义上讲，它是我们学生的工作场所，他们也需要注意其规范和实践，并遵守其中适用的任何规则和规定。无论是大学还是其他大学，一个工作场所都要求我们以一种比我们个人生活中更为正式的方式相互交流，无论这是使用书面媒体还是通过彼此交谈。彼此之间的通话曾经仅限于通过电话或在办公室或校园内的其他场所进行面对面交流，但如今面对面的这项技术现在包括通过Zoom等技术相互交流，微软团队和类似。确实，在撰写本社论时，虽然我们仍然受到全球大流行的一种或另一种影响，但在此之前在校园内举行的许多正式会议现在都在在线环境中进行， 只要。对于许多学者来说，这确实是一个陌生的领域，它也面临着不小的挑战，特别是对于那些不习惯参加在线会议或在线召开会议但更重要的是，我们很少或根本没有运行会议的经验的人坐在家里时，也可以在线进行讲座和研讨会。像任何工作场所中的所有工作一样，是否对过渡进行了周密的计划，以及我们是否有足够长的时间来进行必要的培训和发展，以进行所需的重大更改，对于我们许多人来说，这也许对文化的冲击较小。而且，当然，这将意味着在如此短的时间内完成较少的工作；当然，对所需类型进行根本性更改非常耗时且费力。