Emergency Remote Teaching

A few weeks before the start of the semester, it was decided that the 2020 summer semester could only be taught digitally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. University lecturers were under great pressure to provide digital courses within a very short space of time and without sufficient support. This crisis-induced form of "digitalisation in university teaching" must be clearly distinguished from systematic and long-term planning, development and implementation of online teaching, such as can be found in part-time courses, at distance learning universities or as international courses with distributed target groups. Hodges, Moore, Lockee, Trust and Bond (2020) refer to the current ad hoc digitisation of teaching as "emergency remote teaching" (ERT) as opposed to "online learning" in the sense of planned professional online teaching.

In the research accompanying the ERT summer semester at the University of Hamburg, this situation is interpreted as a unique crisis-related field experiment: the emergency nature of ERT makes it impossible to use it as an indicator for the design of planned online teaching or to carry out the usual teaching evaluations; at the same time, the situation can be used to answer questions about university teaching that cannot be answered under "normal conditions". The aim of the accompanying research is to gain insights that will help to improve the digital teaching programmes that have now emerged, taking into account the given conditions, to provide practical tips for the use of digital technologies at face-to-face universities once the crisis is over and to provide impetus for how we can make university teaching more resilient in general.
The accompanying research consists of a survey of teaching staff, a survey of centralised and decentralised teaching support stakeholders and a larger student survey.
Individual reports on the teacher survey and the student survey are already available (in german):

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