The COVID-19 pandemic has forced higher education institutions to rapidly transition to online learning. This has placed a significant burden on faculties, who have had to learn new technologies and adapt their teaching methods in a short period of time. Higher education leaders have a critical role to play in supporting faculty during this…

During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, students and teachers were unable to attend school in-person due to building closures. Schools and teachers had to switch to virtual learning environments. The stress of having to adapt to new ways of teaching virtually, establishing relationships with students and parents while utilizing virtual…

COVID-19 created serious and long-lasting difficulties within educational systems resulting in higher rates of teacher attrition in the U.S. Teacher agency, which is the teacher's capacity to act professionally, is a predictor of teacher attrition. The school environment, through policies and practices, can inhibit teacher agency, and the…

This research employed a phenomenological design of qualitative research models to examine the views of primary school teachers about distance education during the pandemic in the context of classroom management. Fifteen teachers voluntarily participated in this research, conducted in Antakya, one of the central districts of Hatay province. The…

Teachers naturally engage in the act of 'noticing' as part of their daily practice. This specialised form of noticing, referred to as 'teacher noticing', involves a deliberate focus on specific aspects within the mathematics classroom. The author's PhD research has investigated how the events teachers notice and respond to online in Emergency…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how hospital administrators and managers describe their understanding and practice of leadership during a prolonged public health crisis in the Southwestern United States. This study included 12 semi-structured interviews and two focus groups of four participants. In addition, this…

The COVID-19 pandemic caused many educational stakeholders to rethink the purpose and function of public education. The COVID-19 mediasphere and politically divided climate has ushered legislative stakeholders and the public's attention to the need for media literacy education. Critical media literacy addresses the goals of media literacy…

There is widespread speculation (e.g., Johnson, 2021; Klinger et al., 2022; Mathews, 2022; Walker, 2021) and some evidence (e.g., Sanchez & Moore, 2022, Sanchez, 2023) that grading standards have changed over the course of the pandemic, making higher grades relatively easier to achieve and less reflective of objective measures of learning. It…

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to discover, from the First-Year Experience student perspective, how the course might be improved to better meet their needs in the post-pandemic environment. The transitional experiences of first-year college students and best practices for the First-Year Experience course curriculum have…

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 caused unexpected and unprecedented disruptions worldwide, inflicting inconvenience in daily life, heightened health risk, and psychological distress. University students, especially international students, faced unique challenges and stressors related to education, financial situation, safety, mental…

Many universities are transitioning to more flexible work environments beyond the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this action research study was to investigate the attitudes and experiences of higher education administrative staff related to flexwork and to improve the change leadership self-efficacy of female leaders tasked…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous challenges specific to educational context resulted in disrupted teaching and learning for students across the U.S. Consequently, accelerating recovery of disrupted learning has become the primary concern of every school district in the nation. Prior to the pandemic, the use of data to guide instruction was…

This descriptive qualitative case study explored how a pandemic, such as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impacted National Guard strategic training and education virtual learning policies. There is the lack of standard strategic level policies for virtual training and education. The specific problem is that COVID-19 adversely impacts…

The purpose of this follow-up study was to investigate further the expressed needs of Instructional Designers (IDers) from a large public Facebook group. Our previous original research (Abramenka-Lachheb et al., 2021a) reported that IDers expressed needs during the pandemic in several categories, including: (1) educational technology, (2)…

Developing rapport with learners has presented challenges for Higher Education teaching practitioners since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, who increasingly facilitate learning within synchronous/asynchronous online environments. Podcasts are of renewed interest as a digital learning resource in this context. We explored, inductively, views of…