TITLE:
Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: Personal Reflections, Student Surveys and Pre-COVID Comparative Data
AUTHORS:
Tariq Khraishi
KEYWORDS:
Virtual Teaching, Online Learning, COVID-19 Pandemic, In-Person Teaching, Teaching Modality
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.2,
February
7,
2021
ABSTRACT: Online teaching has
emerged powerfully worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper recounts the
personal experience of the author teaching his first full-time virtual course
online in a synchronous fashion. The author provides back reflection on his Fall 2020 course enumerating advantages and disadvantages for virtual teaching versus in-person teaching.
The author also gathered student feedback in
the form of a survey on their first fully-immersed COVID experience as a full online live course.
Data comparing the pre-COVID course grades and course evaluations to the
COVID outcomes are also provided. Based on the survey and grades/course evaluations comparisons, it is concluded that
the shift to pure online teaching was successful.