Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later

Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020)

“…This very brief analysis provides the background to concerns about marginalization and exclusion of minority groups on campus and online. Questions about the (post)digital have been richly explored in Postdigital Science and Education journal and book series 2 , and recent volumes have explored how Covid-19 has impacted on teaching and learning 3 , including collective testimonials articles 'Teaching in the Age of Covid-19' (Jandrić et al 2020), 'Teaching in the Age of Covid-19: 1 Year Later' (Jandrić et al 2021a), and the follow-up analysis article (Jandrić et al 2021b). Like these contributors, I fretted over how to teach in this new environment under pandemic conditions, and many of the responses gathered here inevitably reflect similar concerns.…”

The Voice of the Pandemic Generation

“…Troubling reports about female academics publishing less and starting fewer research projects than their male peers during lockdown conditions (Viglione 2020) add politico-economical insult to pandemic injury. And gender is just the tip of the iceberg of various reconfigurations at the intersections of numerous social categorisations including cultural and religious contexts (Hurley and Al-Ali 2021), social conditions and employment (Jandrić et al 2021a), and postdigital positionality (Hayes 2021;Jandrić et al 2021b). As the popular adage says, we are all in the same storm -but some of us navigate it on large cruisers and others navigate it on rusty dinghies.…”

Protecting the University as a Physical Place in the Age of Postdigitization

“…However, as Jane Jacobs (2016) noted, the places derided as 'blight' were in many cases active and thriving communities. These urban renewal projects end up gutting community, culture, and people, often in Black areas of the cities, hollowing out the broader social connectivity of the surrounding areas (Allen 2021a, b). Once thriving societies that could support local businesses disappeared and, in their place, could be found a highway on the edge of town that led to a Big Box Store™.…”

“…The Herculean efforts in training, retraining, and adapting by the educational profession for schooling in a pandemic world can only go so far. Educators report online teaching to be exhaustive (Jandrić et al , 2021aBista et al 2021). The lessons provided in the experiments for the eventual endemic schooling will be invaluable.…”

“…It was technological innovation that allowed schools and universities to remain open during the Covid-19 pandemic in numerous ways, primarily by offering lectures and classes synchronously or asynchronously. While educators and students are lauded for adaptability in a crisis (Jandrić et al , 2021aBista et al 2021), these new measures should be recognized as Band-Aids and not total replacements for traditional educational settings. Hodges et al (2020) dubbed these adopted practices during the pandemic as emergency remote teaching (ERT), arguing that they should stay in an educators' toolkit given the uncertainties of future crises or events.…”