New Perspectives on Technology Enhanced Education during a Global Pandemic

Dear Colleagues,

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has had a profound, global impact on every aspect of education, including its design, delivery, and assessment. These challenges have been more pronounced from the perspective of students with special needs or disabilities. Hence, every educational institution, ranging from schools and colleges to universities, has had to adapt and evolve to address the challenges posed by the pandemic. These obstacles have spurred the exploration and adoption of various pedagogical practices, technologies, and tools to foster teaching and learning during the pandemic. Innovative approaches have been used to facilitate not only conventional lectures, but also interactive classes, group activities, and even sophisticated laboratory experiments. These efforts have led to a paradigm shift in today’s educational philosophies and practices. 

The purpose of this Special Issue is to serve as a compendium of a broad spectrum of pedagogical approaches and practices that have emerged, either in direct response to the pandemic or indirectly during the pandemic. The collection of articles in this Special Issue will serve as a distilled resource of educational theories, approaches, and practices, along with assessment of their effectiveness. The articles will serve the broader community of primary, secondary, graduate, and postgraduate educators to identify effective methods and best practices that they can employ to further enhance the effectiveness of teaching and learning concepts in their classes and institutions. Accordingly, articles on (but not limited to) the following themes are of interest:

• Theories, models, or best practices for using technologies in remote learning;
• Assessment of approaches and technologies for remote learning;
• Facilitating laboratories in a virtual learning environment;
• Using VR, AR, 3D technologies, and simulation approaches for teaching and learning;
• Accessibility and ADA challenges in remote learning;
• Innovative approaches in physical education;
• Overcoming socioeconomic or cultural challenges in education;
• Engaging students in collaborative group learning;
• Teaching young children and early education;
• Innovations in teaching performing arts via remote learning;
• Experiences with using technologies for training teachers and staff;
• Technologies for enhancing metacognition;
• Facilitating Living Learning Communities (LLCs) in remote learning settings;
• Curricular changes, and program changes for remote learning.

Dr. Dhananjai Madhava Rao
Guest Editor

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