High-quality digital distance teaching during COVID-19 school closures: Does familiarity with technology matter?

ABSTRACT: During the COVID-19-related school closures teachers and students were challenged to suddenly switch to digital teaching at a distance. In particular, the challenge was to organize high-quality teaching in which students stay on task. Familiarity with technology may have helped to master the situation. However, only few studies so far have examined the quality of digital distance teaching (e.g., cognitive activation) during school closures and its relation to students' learning (e.g., effort investment). Moreover, systematic research concerning the role of familiarity with technology-enhanced teaching and learning acquired during face-to-face teaching is yet lacking. In our study, we used data from 729 ninth graders to investigate how student-observed learning activities when using technol

SUBMITTER: Futterer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10030464 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature