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The Tension Field of Digital Teaching From the Perspective of Higher Education Teachers

Authors:
Alexander Tillmann
Sarah Voß-Nakkour
Michael Eichhorn
Frank Kühn

Keywords: Keywords-digital learning and teaching; higher education; digital accessibility

Abstract:
The recent COVID Pandemic forced higher education teachers to come into contact with digital teaching and both positive and negative experiences have been made. Now, it is time to reflect on the advantages and disadvantages that have arisen as a result of digital teaching and what benefits the independence of location and time as well as the possibilities of digitization have yielded for teachers and students. An exploratory study was conducted to analyze perceptions of and opinions on digital teaching as well as statements about future teaching. For this purpose, 13 semi-structured interviews with higher education teachers and deans of studies at a large German university were conducted and analyzed using inductive categorization. As a result, four positions could be identified that describe the different perspectives of higher education teachers on the possibilities of digital teaching and the value of face-to-face teaching. When assuming a certain degree of heterogeneity among students, this results in a tension field of advantages and disadvantages for students, depending on the chosen teaching formats and preferences of the teachers. In this article, reasons behind these four different perspectives are given as well as recommendations for the future design of postpandemic teaching.

Pages: 25 to 30

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023

Publication date: April 24, 2023

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8378

ISBN: 978-1-68558-084-1

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2023 to April 28, 2023