Vlachos, Peter ORCID: 0000-0002-4870-9006 (2022) It's online, but is it learning? A reflection on the acceleration towards digital distance learning (DDL) in mainstream Higher Education. Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, 15 (2). pp. 5-10. ISSN 2044-0081 (doi:https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v15i2.1343)

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Abstract

The Coronavirus pandemic during the past two years (March 2020 – March 2022) has accelerated investment in, and the use of, digital distance learning (DDL). The transition towards DDL in mainstream higher education during this period has expanded both in terms of depth and breadth. Few academic practitioners, observers, managers, or students could have foreseen this rapid pace of change. Unprecedented government interventions in social contact and mobility presented little choice to universities than to adapt in response. The emergency pandemic conditions created an opportunity to implement changes to delivery methods with far less consideration or scrutiny than would have otherwise in more normal times. In this position paper, I provide a brief history of distance learning as a backdrop then to explore some of ‘deeper’ pedagogical implications of these rapid change transitions to DDL in mainstream higher education.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	eLearning; learning theories; widening participation
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education T Technology > T Technology (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business
Last Modified:	06 Feb 2024 11:39
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/38418

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