Technology and educational ‘pivoting’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: A collected commentary

Abstract

The present document presents 13 commentaries that address the broad topic of the special issue-Technology and educational 'pivoting' in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic-and, in some cases, specific articles from the issue itself. Since the launch

Technology and educational ‘pivoting’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Introduction to the special issue

“…We conclude the issue with a collected commentary, comprising 13 entries from fourteen authors, entitled Technology and educational 'pivoting' in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: A collected commentary (Bligh et al, 2022). The contributors are Brett Bligh, Kyungmee Lee, Charles Crook, Maria Cutajar, Cassandra Sturgeon Delia, Yuhong Lei, Michael Lower, Victoria I.…”

Guided by theory? An investigation of teachers’ beliefs about TELL and CALL at a university in Japan

“…Most recently, in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus brought about a complete, albeit temporary, shift to online teaching and learning, sometimes referred to as Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) (Ferri et al, 2020). Thousands of teachers found themselves having to design, develop, and deliver both asynchronous on-demand and synchronous live lessons to learners who were unable to attend a physical campus (Oliveira et al, 2021;Bligh et al, 2022). In 2022, with COVID-19 being gradually brought under control, most educational institutions around the world have returned to face-to-face lessons.…”