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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced a rapid transition of K-16 education to remote and online learning in the final quarter of the 2019–2020 school year. The disruption was extreme for all teachers in K-12 but particularly for teachers involved in pilot programs, such as the NSF-funded Engineering for Us All (e4usa) project. This paper reports the key findings obtained through systematic data collection from a pilot cohort of high school teachers who adapted a brand-new engineering curriculum during the COVID-19 pandemic, students who experienced the adapted curriculum, and a new cohort of teachers who were tasked with teaching the updated curriculum.
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The Analysis of Implementing Augmented Reality within Remote Learning
The world has transitioned into an entire cyber world due to the impact that COVID-19 has had on the planet—forcing us to resort to technology for most of our basic needs like shopping, attending school, and communicating. Technology has already proven to be at the forefront of generation, but now it is causing us not as familiar with technology to use it for our everyday needs. For instance, the elderly and children have had to enter the digital world to keep track of daily life. As a result of this, The education system was also put into a challenging predicament, forcing schools to shut their doors to students and move to complete remote learning. This solution to the COVID-19 pandemic was to limit the virus's spread by leaving lectures, lessons, and seminars to be taught through distant learning. Although this solution proved to be best, the transition has brought upon some unforeseen challenges putting students, parents, school faculty, and staff in difficult positions. The pandemic response has also presented many cybersecurity concerns because, as we all know, cybercriminals target everyone. The transition to remote learning has opened up tons of vulnerabilities within the education system and consequently expanded cybercriminals' reach.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1754054
- PAR ID:
- 10284707
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- ADMI 2021: The Symposium of Computing at Minority Institutions
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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