Reflections on Remote Teaching

Daniel Jones, John Meyer, Jingyu Huang

Abstract


The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to reconsider the way we teach our students. The inability of UK-based lecturers to deliver via traditional lecture-based courses in China (due to ongoing travel restrictions) has been an obstacle to overcome but also an opportunity to investigate innovative remote-teaching methods. Here we review a case study based on teaching three different year groups at the Jinan University - University of Birmingham Joint Institute during the early part of 2020. We reflect on how technology was used, draw conclusions and discuss potential opportunities for the future of remote-teaching.


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mathematics education; remote-teaching; flipped learning; learning technology; distance-learning

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21100/msor.v19i1.1137

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