As the COVID-19 Pandemic ravages the world, it is essential to examine the effectiveness of instructional and technological tools for distance education that were developed during the pandemic crisis. This paper provides techniques for effective remote instruction and examples of educational tools used during the pandemic at the United States Coast Guard Academy. The authors posit that distance education should be designed to promote study and investigation within authentic, realistic, relevant, and information-rich contexts; with a focus on instruments that consider students' individual needs and learning styles. Remote learning should encourage student responsibility, initiative, decision making, and intentional learning and cultivate an atmosphere of cooperative learning among students and teachers. This is best accomplished by utilizing dynamic, generative learning activities that promote analysis, experimentation, synthesis, problem solving, and assesses student progress in learning through realistic tasks and performances. The paper presents how effective distance education can be delivered by focusing on learning resources, pedagogy, learner support and management.
In preparing cadets to be officers, the U.S.Coast Guard Academy (CGA) is committed to developing "the whole person." CGA has increasingly developed program-specific ways to achieve educational goals and learning outcomes. While character development and ethical education have long been important learning outcomes, today's CGA curriculum has incorporated multicultural concepts and inter-cultural perspectives to encompass learning about problems and issues that cut across national boundaries. This paper discusses how student learning, growth, and development can be achieved in an undergraduate program to ensure that graduates are prepared to meet the many challenges they will face throughout their professional careers and lives in an increasingly global environment.
Remote learning became the primary venue for university education throughout the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. While some academic institutions already had remote learning mechanisms in place by design, many higher education institutions – along with faculty and students – had to adapt to virtual or online education for the first time, while school was in session, in spring 2020. The continued effort to improve on-line pedagogy during the 2020-21 academic year suggests new pedagogical norms are now being established, with longer term implications for educators and students alike. In this paper, the authors explore different technologies used in the “classroom” and observed impacts on teaching effectiveness, particularly as they relate to an undergraduate economics course. The authors find that while it is challenging to replicate the in-person class experience, basic economics courses can be effectively taught in a remove environment by leveraging technology.
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