Understanding Distance Education Challenges of Educational Psychology During the Pandemic: A Qualitative Study

Session Description

Educational psychology plays an essential role in teacher education.Through a phenomenological case study, we strive to learn and understand the teaching practice, course design, challenges, and opportunities resulting from the transition of instructional modalities during the pandemic from Educational Psychology faculty members who serve at land-grant institutions. From their experiences, we aim to identify design and delivery strategies to address learner differences, needs, engagement, and accessibility, for moving forward in a setting that faculty can be proficient and flexible in both face-to-face and distance teaching modalities. We are currently in the process of conducting one-on-one interviews with 5 to 10 educational psychology faculty; the data collection stage projects to complete by the end of January. This study will provide empirical evidence of educational psychology faculty’s teaching practice, course design, challenges, and opportunities resulting from the transition of instructional modalities during the pandemic period. These lived experiences will serve as a basis for identifying adaptive and evolving strategies faculty used to address learner differences and needs, and create engaging courses leveraging the affordances of available technologies. In this conference session, we will present the preliminary findings of the case study, and provide examples of sustainable instructional delivery that have evolved out of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

 

Presenter(s)

Karen Krier
Boise State University

Karen Krier is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University. Her research interests are online teaching, inclusive teaching, technology integration, and refugee education.


Yu-Hui Ching
Boise State University

Yu-Hui Ching is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Technology at Boise State University, USA. Her recent research interests are in the areas of online teaching and learning, computational thinking (problem solving),
and technology-supported STEM learning (e.g., robotics, 3D printing). She has taught the following online graduate courses: Introduction to Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Evaluation, Online Teaching for Adult Learning, Theoretical Foundations of Educational Technology, Integrating Computational Thinking in Learning and Teaching, and Design-Based Research.

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