Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic affected all aspects of human life, with significant impacts on education, as higher education institutions across the world were forced to make rapid transition to a fully online education format with no time to prepare. This qualitative study applied the narrative approach to examine the stories of six university instructors regarding their experiences with promoting student engagement during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching. The study findings present the instructors’ feelings during the transition to distance education, the challenges they faced, and their efforts to promote their students’ engagement by using various strategies and assessments and by providing the students with emotional support. The findings also present the effect of local culture and millennial generation student status on students’ engagement.

摘要

COVID-19 大流行影响了人类生活的方方面面，对教育产生了重大影响，因为世界各地的高等教育机构被迫快速过渡到完全在线的教育形式，而没有时间准备。这项定性研究采用叙事方法来考察六位大学教师在 COVID-19 紧急远程教学期间促进学生参与的经历。研究结果展示了教师在向远程教育过渡期间的感受、他们面临的挑战以及他们通过使用各种策略和评估以及为学生提供情感支持来促进学生参与的努力。研究结果还展示了当地文化和千禧一代学生身份对学生参与度的影响。