Humphrey Asamoah Agyekum

Abstract

Coming Together: Creating a Sense of a Common Classroom in Corona-virus Era

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected education due to closures of universities. Universities as a result have resorted to remote ways of education. Although online teaching is not new, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated and accelerated the use of digital learning tools. The project therefore seeks to understand, on the one hand, how lecturers prepare for online teaching sessions in a bid to create a sense of classroom in a virtual environment. On the other hand, the project engages students by enquiring about how they experience online teaching, while soliciting their views on how lecturers could create a sense of classroom in a virtual setting. An important conclusion of the study is that lecturers should encourage active engagement of students in order to create a sense of classroom, while fostering their learning process.