Kirkwood Library: Synchronous & Asynchronous Virtual Instruction Research: Overall effects of pandemic

About this guide

This research guide presents a collection of information resources which help address these questions:

Does attending synchronous class sessions, as compared to asynchronous-only, improve student outcomes (e.g. course completion, success, or satisfaction) in virtual instruction?
- Focus is on spring 2020 when students and faculty who didn't sign up for online instruction were forced online due to the pandemic.
What kinds of services and resources seem to help students with this shift?
What kinds of instructional design features seem to help students with this shift?

Covid-19 support for community colleges

American Association of Community Colleges: Covid-19 Updates & Resources
Comprehensive collection of information and resources
League for Innovation: Covid-19 Information and Resources for Community Colleges

Studies of overall effects of pandemic on student learning

How the Pandemic Put More Strain on Students Last Fall
January 2021 summary of extensive student survey
E-Learning Critical Success Factors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Analysis of E-Learning Managerial Perspectives
The goal of this paper was to identify the critical success factors for E-learning during COVID-19 using the multi-criteria Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) techniques to enhance the educational process...We found that technology management, support from management, increased student awareness to use E-learning systems, and demanding a high level of information technology from instructors, students, and universities were the most influential factors for E-learning during COVID-19.
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on ESL Learners and TESOL Practitioners in the United States
With the aim of better understanding the effects of the pandemic on students and teachers, researchers prepared a survey that addressed stress levels, learning and teaching English, and remote instruction. Participants indicated how important learning English was before and after the pandemic and responded to an open-ended question soliciting their perspectives on what was most difficult during the pandemic.
COVID‐19 and online teaching in higher education: A case study of Peking University
Starting from the spring of 2020, the outbreak of the COVID‐19 caused Chinese universities to close the campuses and forced them to initiate online teaching. This paper focuses on a case of Peking University's online education. Six specific instructional strategies are presented to summarize current online teaching experiences for university instructors who might conduct online education in similar circumstances.
The Pandemic is Dragging On. Professors Are Burning Out
From Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov. 2020
International Higher Education and Global Citizenship Education: The Rise of Critical Cosmopolitanism's 'Personhood' in the Age of COVID-19
This article argues that in order to foment this turn--from individuality/competitiveness to collectivity/non-rivalry--a shift from a methodologically nationalist form of global citizenship education, towards one which embraces cosmopolitan personhood must occur. Thus, cosmopolitan personhood should be understood as an educational project and an ethical imperative which promotes a notion of cosmopolitan citizenship based in openness and the collective struggle towards securing the greater good."
What Higher Ed Has Learned From Covid-19
Presents an overview of many different aspects of effects of pandemic on higher ed.
Student Experiences During the Pandemic Pivot
Research report