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An Overview of the Impact of COVID-19 and "Emergency Remote Teaching" on International CS Education Practitioners

Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo, Richard Watermeyer, Janet Goodall Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Swansea University Authors: Tom Crick Orcid Logo, Cathryn Knight Orcid Logo, Janet Goodall Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1145/3408877.3439680

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The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed "emergency remote teaching" across education globally, leading to the closure of institutions across all settings, from schools through to universities. We draw on the quantitative and qualitative findings from a large-scale international survey (N=2,483)...

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Published in: Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
ISBN: 9781450380621
Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 2021
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description The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed "emergency remote teaching" across education globally, leading to the closure of institutions across all settings, from schools through to universities. We draw on the quantitative and qualitative findings from a large-scale international survey (N=2,483) conducted in the immediate aftermath of closures, implementation of lockdown measures, and the shift to online delivery in March 2020. We report how those teaching the discipline of computer science (CS) across all educational levels (n=327) show significantly more positive attitudes towards the move to online learning, teaching and assessment (LT&A) than those working in other disciplines. However, while CS practitioners across all sectors/settings consistently noted the potential opportunities of these changes, they also raised a number of wider concerns on the impact of this shift to online, especially on workload and job precarity. More specifically for the discipline of CS, there were concerns raised regarding the ability to effectively deliver technical topics online, as well as the impact on various types of formal examinations and assessment.
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