Teaching and Learning with Technology During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Highlighting the Need for Micro-Meso-Macro Alignments

• Main Authors: Joke Voogt, Gerald Knezek
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) 2021-09-01
• Series: Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
• Subjects: micro-meso-macro alignments; COVID-19; pandemic; EDUsummIT; learning contexts; teacher support
• Online Access: https://cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/28150

All over the world teaching and learning transitioned to forms of online education due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this contribution, we recognize challenges that this disruptive change brought about for teachers and learners. We reflect on these challenges, based on discussions at EDUsummIT2019 in Quebec about the theme “Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age”. Informed by theoretical conceptualization and empirical evidence we identify micro-meso-macro alignments that need to be in place to move education into the digital age: alignments for quality learning contexts, alignments in support for teachers, and alignments through partnerships.