Monday, October 26
12:45 PM-1:45 PM
EDT
Room 1

Free to be you and me: A person-centred approach to preparing teachers for online learning

Keynote ID: 58355
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    Jo Tondeur
    Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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    Sarah Howard
    University of Wollongong

Abstract: Over the past year, the field of education has undergone the Great Online Transition: an unplanned, massive and rapid shift from face-to-face teaching and learning to fully online in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Teachers and students from primary schools, to secondary and into higher education had to reconsider what was being taught, how it should be learned and how to determine if any of it was being learned. The difficulty of this was that many teachers, in both school and higher education, had very little or no experienced teaching online. This event has provided an interesting opportunity to consider two related aspects of online teaching: teachers' skills and knowledge of online learning, and what may be expectations of online learning in different educational contexts. In this keynote, we will unpack how a person-centered approach to professional development and learning can be used to address these two aspects of developing an online learning practice. To enact a person-centred approach, we will first consider teacher profiles in relation to readiness to teach online, including individual and institutional factors, to consider what support is needed to teach online in a range of educational contexts. We will then present scenarios of how to best design teacher training to be responsive to different profiles in the development of digital competence, to support online teaching and learning. This is an important consideration in the field, because teaching online is not only in the short-term to manage the pandemic. It is also necessary to consider the long-term goal of providing better support and training to integrate online learning pedagogies and approaches in different educational contexts.

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