A reflective account of the changes due to the covid-19 pandemic on teaching and digital education within an HEI

Abstract

The coronavirus epidemic was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on the 11th of March 2020. Two days later, King’s College London enacted plans to encourage all staff and students to teach online. This created a unique opportunity to both review and assess how teaching has changed in this institutional context. This report provides an overview of what has been done in institutions more broadly, the reaction to online learning, and gives feedback from users and from other data sources on the perceived impact on teaching. This research is novel in that it is one of the first largely reflective narrative accounts of how, and in what manner, changes to digital higher education were conducted and perceived during the COVID-19 pandemic.