TY - JOUR
T1 - How and why? Technology and practices used by university mathematics lecturers for emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Fhloinn, Eabhnat Ní
AU - Fitzmaurice, Olivia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
PY - 2021/12/1
Y1 - 2021/12/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic led to closures of university campuses around the world from March 2020 onwards. With little or no time for preparation, lecturers turned to emergency remote teaching to continue to educate their students. Online mathematics education poses particular challenges in terms of both the hardware and software necessary for effective teaching, due to issues with mathematical symbols and notation, among others. In this paper, we report upon an online survey of 257 university mathematics lecturers across 29 countries, which explores what hardware and software they used for emergency remote teaching, for what purposes they used these and what training and support were made available to them at the time. We also consider what approaches they took to emergency remote teaching and what were their reasons for this.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic led to closures of university campuses around the world from March 2020 onwards. With little or no time for preparation, lecturers turned to emergency remote teaching to continue to educate their students. Online mathematics education poses particular challenges in terms of both the hardware and software necessary for effective teaching, due to issues with mathematical symbols and notation, among others. In this paper, we report upon an online survey of 257 university mathematics lecturers across 29 countries, which explores what hardware and software they used for emergency remote teaching, for what purposes they used these and what training and support were made available to them at the time. We also consider what approaches they took to emergency remote teaching and what were their reasons for this.
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U2 - 10.1093/teamat/hrab018
DO - 10.1093/teamat/hrab018
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121278033
SN - 0268-3679
VL - 40
SP - 392
EP - 416
JO - Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
JF - Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
IS - 4
ER -