The pedagogical impacts of a move to online learning (work in progress)

Abstract

The outbreak of Covid-19 has caused major disruptions to all aspects of life and in Higher Edu-cation it has had a significant impact on teaching and learning. Probably the greatest impact has been on the need to move much teaching and learning online. This is of particular interest as the migration to online teaching and learning has been driven by external factors rather than for pedagogic reasons. Four colleagues from the Institute of Education who all work on the Primary School Direct Post-Graduate Certificate in Education are engaged in research to explore this. Their research seeks to answer the following what are the pedagogical impacts of a move to online learning for a PGCE programme