An Investigation on Teachers As Content Creators During The Pandemic

Abstract

The closure of schools during these insisting times of the Covid-19 pandemic has served to be the most challenging times for schools and educational institutions to be able to keep ensuring the teaching of learning continues and students are not denied their needed learning opportunities. Ensuring the learning and teaching is productive, teachers have seen to be struggling to choose and use appropriate tools and materials in assisting their students' learning progress. Teachers have been the original content creators for years and now are forced to create and design more suitable materials once again than to just be able to rely on pre-made content for their classes. Therefore, this research aims to provide an insight into teachers' views on creating specific and relevant content especially in this new pedagogical platform and to identify if the application of technology has had any influence in their content creation for their lessons. To achieve the aim and credibility of this study, a qualitative research method and triangulation was applied with the semi-structured interview and the documents of teaching materials analysis used as an instrument. Five of the school teachers were chosen through purposive sampling. The finding of this study shows there is a need to create material because the existing material is not suitable for online classes, students have different levels of proficiency, asynchronous vs synchronous learning, need for extra support, revision, personal motivation and differentiated learning. A sum of 120 pieces of material was collected from these teachers, of which 104 materials were digital material and 16 materials were non-digital material. There are 10 ways in which these materials were used: lesson delivery, assessment, notes and tasks, enrichment, engagement, revision, showcase students presentation, set induction, showcase assignment and projects and tutorials. The finding of this study also shows the major influences and hindrances that prevent effective delivery of content in designing and developing, the process of creation and integration