LibGuides: Teaching and Learning in the Time of COVID-19: Teaching

Teaching in the Time of COVID-19

Moving from in-person to remote, distanced or online teaching and learning is not the only, or biggest, change for education right now: it's making all of those changes while dealing with the stress and trauma of a pandemic.

The Single Most Essential Requirement in Designing a Fall Online Course - HASTAC
Short post about the stresses and difficulties of teaching and learning in the current moment and the need to build in flexibility and change expectations.
by Cathy Davidson, HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory), May 11, 2020
The Difference Between Emergency Remote Teaching and Online Learning - EDUCAUSE Review
Article by Charles Hodges, Stephanie Moore, Barb Lockee, Torrey Trust and Aaron Bond, Friday, March 27, 2020
"Well-planned online learning experiences are meaningfully different from courses offered online in response to a crisis or disaster. Colleges and universities working to maintain instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic should understand those differences when evaluating this emergency remote teaching."

Leading Groups Virtually; a down-and-dirty guide to leading online courses, meetings, trainings, and events during the coronavirus pandemic
by Daniel Hunter and Jeanne Rewa
Extensive guide to key principles, tools, and transitioning to online, plus a template for live sessions, FAQ, preventions and solutions for common problems, more resources and more.
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The Pandemic Should Change Education: Nine Ways to Start - The Tyee
Suggestions for changes to primary education for the world since the pandemic.
Analysis by Crawford Kilian, May 13 2020
COVID-19 Is Making Us Rethink Everything - Inside Higher Ed
"Raechele L. Pope gives eight recommendations for creating and maintaining affirming and student-centered advising for Ph.D.s in uncertain times."
May 11, 2020
‘A pedagogy of kindness’: U of T faculty find creative ways to support students, learning during COVID-19 - U of T News
Professors delivering a U of T education from a distance while doing what they can to lift students’ spirits.
The Elephant in the Zoom Room - Inside Higher Ed
The current pandemic brings home that higher education must be organized around meaningful and humane student learning experiences, write members of the TPHE Collective.
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility in Clinical Care during COVID-19
Tip sheets and resources from UHN and other organizations on issues around inclusion for coworkers, patients and families during the pandemic.
The Academic Response to COVID-19 - Frontiers in Public Health
by Chantelle Rijs* and Frederick Fenter
Find key findings, full report, supplementary material and more from a survey of Frontier's editors, reviewers and authors conducted in May and June 2020 "in order to gain insight into what impact COVID-19 has had on the international scientific community, their work and the implications for science"

EDC Centre Leaders Meeting, June 16 2021
Education, meet COVID-19: Considerations and contributions from education science and scholarship

EDC Centre Leaders Meeting June 16 2021 Jamboard

Teaching and Learning Support

Resources for Teaching and Learning at UHN
This guide provides information and resources to support your Teaching and Learning. Links to books, webinars, MOOCs, database searches, and other resources to support the UHN Teaching Competencies
Educational Development at UHN
Find information about events, rounds, workshops and more for your development as a teacher at University Health Network.
(If you are accessing from off-site, log in to the intranet, click on Education at the top of the page, then choose "Clinical Educational Development" in the first box.)
Leaders in Simulation at Michener
CLIS provides best-practice educational development for Michener faculty in online instruction, learning-centred educational strategies, facilitation and debriefing skills, curriculum design and development, and interprofessional and simulation-based education.
Events at The Institute for Education Research (TIER)
Find lectures, journal clubs and more on TIER's events page. If you are part of the UHN/Michener team and interested in Education Research be sure to also check out membership in TIER for support and to connect to other education researchers.
Centre for Faculty Development - University of Toronto
Tips, information, webinars, resources and more, usually free to anyone.
Teaching and Learning - St Michael's / Unity Health Toronto
St. Michael's resources and supports for teaching and learning at Unity Health.

Research

Here are recent articles about education and COVID-19 from PubMed, using search strategy:

(COVID-19 OR COVID19 OR SARS-CoV-2 OR SARSCoV2 OR SARS-2 OR SARS2 OR coronavirus 2019 OR coronavirus 2020) AND ("Education, Professional"[Majr] OR "Inservice Training"[Majr] OR "Schools, Health Occupations"[Majr] OR "Teaching"[Majr] OR "Curriculum"[Majr])

UHN and Michener team members can request searches on specific questions or topics using the Search Request Form, or by contacting your Information Specialist directly.