The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed education dramatically, with the sudden shift from face-to-face to emergency remote teaching. Online learning environments may facilitate data-driven instructional process; yet, our understanding regarding data-driven decisions is still limited. This quantitative study examined types of learners' data that higher education instructors have access to, are interested in, and decisions they would consider making upon exposure to, while comparing emergency remote teaching with traditional teaching. Data were collected via an online questionnaire distributed among higher education instructors during the first COVID-19 outbreak (N = 195, affiliated with 108 different academic institutions in 35 countries). Instructors were requested to refer to a face-to-face course that was shifted under these emergency circumstances to online teaching. Findings indicated a broader access to learners' data while teaching the course face-to-face and a slightly greater interest in learners' data while teaching the course in an emergency remote teaching mode. These complimentary findings depict a situation in which instructors lack face-to-face cues about their students without accessing alternative sources of data. Moreover, when teaching online versus face-to-face, instructors showed more interest and higher intention to make decisions based on data about learners' collaborative learning and social and emotional support, which highlights instructors' interest in aspects of learning that are less visible during online teaching.

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从数据到行动：在线应急远程教学中基于学习者数据的教师决策

COVID-19 大流行的爆发极大地改变了教育，从面对面教学突然转变为紧急远程教学。在线学习环境可以促进数据驱动的教学过程；然而，我们对数据驱动决策的理解仍然有限。这项定量研究调查了高等教育教师可以访问的、感兴趣的学习者数据类型，以及他们在接触时会考虑做出的决定，同时将紧急远程教学与传统教学进行比较。数据是通过在第一次 COVID-19 爆发期间分发给高等教育教师的在线问卷收集的（N = 195，隶属于 35 个国家的 108 个不同的学术机构）。要求教师参考在这些紧急情况下转移到在线教学的面授课程。调查结果表明，在面对面授课时可以更广泛地访问学习者的数据，而在紧急远程教学模式下教授课程时，对学习者数据的兴趣略高。这些互补的发现描述了一种情况，在这种情况下，教师在无法访问替代数据来源的情况下，缺乏有关学生的面对面线索。此外，在线教学与面对面教学相比，教师表现出更多的兴趣和更高的意愿，根据学习者的协作学习以及社会和情感支持的数据做出决策，这突出了教师的