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Melissa Au
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world rapidly and enduringly. People have to maintain an appropriate social distance while refraining from almost all everyday activities. Educators around the globe are striving to make education possible in this turbulent time. Blended learning and online learning have now become the axes of modern education. It is time for us to take this critical moment as an opportunity to re-examine our educational goals and rethink possible pedagogies. In light of this, it is necessary and urgent for educators, education researchers and related parties to keep pace with the new normal in education. The scholarly field has researched the effectiveness of implementing sustainable and accessible learning models with help from emerging technologies. Numerous institutions have started exploring how to make learning more visible when physical contact is to be avoided.
Below are some relevant and timely school examples, internet resources and scholarly contributions that raise issues, considerations, challenges as we are rethinking and re-envisioning ways to design, create, and research learning opportunities and teaching processes to meet the needs of all students.
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Highly-cited Academic Articles
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Dziuban, C., Graham, C. R., Moskal, P. D., Norberg, A., & Sicilia, N. (2018). Blended learning: The new normal and emerging technologies. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 15(1), 1-16.
Kolb, M., Fröhlich, L., & Schmidpeter, R. (2017). Implementing sustainability as the new normal: Responsible management education – From a private business school's perspective. The International Journal of Management Education, 15(2), 280-292.
Moeller, A. J., & Abbott, M. G. (2018). Creating a new normal: Language education for all. Foreign Language Annals, 51(1), 12-23.
Norberg, A., Dziuban, C. D., & Moskal, P. D. (2011). A time‐based blended learning model. On the Horizon, 19(3), 207-216.
Ross, J., Gallagher, M. S., & Macleod, H. (2013). Making distance visible: Assembling nearness in an online distance learning programme. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 14(4), 51-67.
Extended Readings and Internet Resources
Pope, D. (2020, September 3). Student reflections during the pandemic: An opportunity for educators to create a “new normal”. Challenge Success.
Li, C., & Lalani, F. (2020, April 29). The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education forever: This is how. World Economic Forum.
The University of Hong Kong. (2017, July 14). Embracing teaching and learning challenges and trends in higher education.
University of Northern Lowa. (n.d.). Resources for caregivers and educators.
Young Minds. (n.d.). Mental health resources for professionals working with young people.
Articles Published in the Region
Hew, K. F., Jia, C., Gonda, D. E., & Bai, S. (2020). Transitioning to the “new normal” of learning in unpredictable times: Pedagogical practices and learning performance in fully online flipped classrooms. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 17(1), 1-22.
Ng, P. T. (2021). Timely change and timeless constants: COVID-19 and educational change in Singapore. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 20(1), 19-27.
Tran, L. T., & Vu, T. T. P. (2018). Beyond the ‘normal’ to the ‘new possibles’: Australian students’ experiences in Asia and their roles in making connections with the region via the New Colombo Plan. Higher Education Quarterly, 72(3), 194-207.
Zhang, R., Lu, Y., & Du, H. (2021). Vulnerability and resilience in the wake of COVID-19: Family resources and children’s well-being in China. Chinese Sociological Review, 2021, 1-35.
HKU Hub
Hong Kong Continuing Professional Development Hub for University English Teachers. (2020, May 23). Episode 15: Making sense of the new normal with Dr. Susan Bridges.
YouTube Videos
HKU Faculty of Education. (2020, March 11). Adapting learning design from blended to fully online.
Tedx Talks. (2018, November 28). TEDxParramatta - Greg Miller - Shaping the new normal in education.
OECD. (2019, October 22). Future of education and skills 2030: The new “normal” in education.
Robinson, K. (2010, October 14). RSA animate: Changing education paradigms.
UNSECO. (2020, September 15). Debating the futures of education: The new normal.
UBS Nobel Perspectives. (2020, September 23). A new normal: Episode 4 education.
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