Affiliation:
1. Western University of Health Sciences, USA
Abstract
An examination of the educational system during the last decade reveals that changes have gradually permeated all aspects of teaching and learning. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the pace of change, affecting all areas of teaching and learning through most of the 2020 school year and beyond. A digital learning modality quadrant is presented to provide educators and enterprises with a tool to determine the most optimal modality that meets the need of the curriculum as well as learners. Also, this chapter introduces the quadrantal teaching and learning framework (QTLF) designed to assist in redefining the meaning of learning and, by extension, reshaping the future of learning. It outlines four areas of the educational system that must change: how we teach, how we learn, what we teach, and what we learn. This chapter endeavors to address the challenges related to these four areas and proposes strategies that could be used to prepare educational institutions to operate within a redefined meaning of learning.