Abstract:
In response to the outbreak of the pandemic, university teaching abruptly and almost completely switched from face-to-face to online teaching. Politically, this comprehensive change was regarded as a desirable and long overdue ‚push for digitalization‘. Based on the analysis of online teaching shares and organizational patterns, we explore what remains of the digitalization of university teaching after the pandemic. Universities differ in how they embrace digitalization on the organizational level, yet they all display a sharp decline of online teaching shares. In contrast to notions of increased efficiency associated with digitalization, we argue that universities have realized the enormous effort necessary to make online teaching happen, and have thus returned to face-to-face teaching after the pandemic.
Über die Autor*innen:
- Roland Bloch,
Dr., Projektleiter und Wiss. Mitarbeiter Zentrum für Schul- und Bildungsforschung, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg - Sylvi Mauermeister,
Dr., Wiss. Mitarbeiterin, Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften/Bildungssoziologie, Universität Paderborn
