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From Routine Mode to Emergency Mode and Back: Reflections on Israeli Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education After the COVID-19 Period

From Routine Mode to Emergency Mode and Back: Reflections on Israeli Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education After the COVID-19 Period

Hagit Meishar-Tal (Holon Institute of Technology (HIT), Israel)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5934-8.ch013
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Abstract

This chapter analyses Israeli higher education institutions' transitions from campus learning to online learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic and critically discusses the transition back to routine campus-based learning. The chapter reviews the state of online teaching in pre-COVID-19 academia, the changes required during lockdowns and social distancing restrictions, and the essential difference between routine and emergency online teaching. It also discusses the consequences of returning to campus-based learning and ways to leverage the changes that took place during the COVID-19 period and adapt them to routine mode again.
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The COVID-19 breakdown and the quarantines and social distancing restrictions followed, was a shaky and challenging period for higher education institutions (HEIs), which have always been considered a stronghold of conservatism. However, they proved their ability to adapt to the new situation quickly and effectively. Academic institutions in Israel are part of the few public institutions that were not paralyzed during the pandemic. Teaching continued almost uninterrupted, with a rapid and impressive transition from face-to-face to online learning (Donitsa-Schmidt & Ramot, 2020; Cohen & Sabag, 2020). The higher education system has proven that it can address the changing needs of students and be flexible and adaptive to a changing situation. However, the “day after”, we will have to address complex dilemmas: how to manage the change in academic teaching and what to preserve and what to improve.

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