Download Report: Student and Faculty Experiences with Emergency Remote Learning in Spring 2020

November 1, 2020

The emergency shift to remote learning that took place during the spring 2020 term in response to the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruptions for students and faculty across colleges and universities, nationwide and globally. As online and hybrid models of learning become prolonged solutions for institutions seeking to contend with the realities of the pandemic and continued uncertainty, the field can gain valuable and actionable insights from the lived experiences of students and faculty at the height of the crisis. This report presents findings and recommendations gleaned from a small exploratory qualitative study conducted over the summer of 2020 to understand how select undergraduate students and faculty experienced the spring emergency pivot at a large, multi-campus, and highly diverse higher education institution system in an urban, metropolitan American city.

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