The year of COVID-19: Personal reflections on how traditional pedagogy can be informed by online teaching methods (aka how I changed my mind about online teaching)

Author

Ee-Ing ONG, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2020

Abstract

Reflections on lessons learnt during online teaching during COVID-19. Despite the difficulties of the term, I realized that online teaching had certain strengths that traditional face-to-face teaching formats lacked. This started me on the path to adapting online teaching practices to improve our current modes of teaching, such as using online tools to improve interactivity, and reduce bias in interacting with students. I also started reconsidering whether our traditional classroom structures are indeed the best way to teach. While my experiences are based on teaching law, I believe that these points are also applicable to teaching in other disciplines.

Keywords

Online teaching, teaching tools, classroom, law, COVID-19, pandemic

Discipline

Curriculum and Instruction | Higher Education | Legal Education | Online and Distance Education

Research Areas

Innovation, Technology and the Law

Publication

Law and COVID-19

Editor

Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez, Mark Findlay and Goh Yihan

First Page

177

Last Page

184

ISBN

9789811808272

Identifier

10.2139/ssrn.3686357

Publisher

School of Law, Singapore Management University

City or Country

Singapore

Citation

1

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3686357