COVID-19: what students got, what they want now

Mahsood Shah (Swinburne U) wanted to know how students learnt during COVID 19 – so he asked three peak-body leaders by  CHRISTOPHER HALL, BELLE LIM, MAHSOOD SHAH, KEVIN TANAYA The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the student learning experience. This article is based on discussions with the National Union of Students (NUS) …

Digital and media literacy in pre-service teacher education. A case study from Switzerland.

In the age of digitalization, Digital and Media Literacy (DML) has gained increasing attention in European compulsory education, blending insights and experiences from the media education and digital literacy domains. Teacher education, starting from pre-service education, is central for the actual integration of DML education in classroom practice. This article discusses the case study of …

Students’ perception of the potential of elearning practices at the University of Guyana

The University of Guyana, up to the present time, continues to embrace a traditional learning and teaching approach, in its educational practices. Face to face contact is the principal mode of instructional delivery. Further to this, the conventional Distance Education, via the print-based correspondence mode, is still the current trend. Such a method only favours …