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The changes we need: Education post COVID-19.

Yong ZhaoJim Watterston
Published in: Journal of educational change (2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both unprecendented disruptions and massive changes to education. However, as schools return, these changes may disappear. Moreover, not all of the changes are necessarily the changes we want in education. In this paper, we argue that the pandemic has created a unique opportunity for educational changes that have been proposed before COVID-19 but were never fully realized. We identify three big changes that education should make post COVID: curriculum that is developmental, personalized, and evolving; pedagogy that is student-centered, inquiry-based, authentic, and purposeful; and delivery of instruction that capitalizes on the strengths of both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Keyphrases
  • coronavirus disease
  • sars cov
  • quality improvement
  • healthcare
  • respiratory syndrome coronavirus