From face-to-face to Distance: Towards Flexibility in five Dimensions of Blended Learning: Lessons Learnt from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

In the rapid switch from contact to distance learning in response to the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic lecturers had to adapt their teaching in relation to five distinct areas – place, time, class size, technology, and pedagogy. This autoethnography reflects on the implications of each of those dimensions, as well as the extent to which lecturers worked either at the extremes or the dimension, or in a way to incorporate elements of both extremes. From the narratives of how lecturers cope I derive a matrix for the selection of technologies and pedagogies in blended learning.