Abstract—The education systems around the world have had
to adapt quickly to find ways to offer university programs
remotely in the face of the Covid 19 pandemic. Without the
proper preparation and sufficient knowledge, instructors
learned to teach online during the Winter 2020 semester to
allow students to complete their courses when campuses
suddenly closed as a safety measure. Normally many weeks of
preparation would have been necessary to redesign a course to
be efficiently offered online. This paper studies some aspects of
the transition from Face to Face teaching in the Fall 2019
semester to Face to face / Online teaching in the Winter of 2020
(beginning of the pandemic) to completely Online teaching in
the Fall 2020. This transition is examined in a Managerial
Analytics course offered in the first semester of an MBA
program at a Canadian University. A survey administered at
the end of each semester reveals different levels of students’
anxiety, modification in the communication tools utilized,
changes in intensity of weekly study hours and expected
recollection of the material learned in the course, a year after
completion. Additional variations are also observed by gender.
Index Terms—Online teaching, face-to-face teaching, anxiety,
means of communication.
D. Morin is with the Department of Supply Chain and Business
Technology Management, John Molson School of Business, Concordia
University, 1450 De Maisonneuve West, Montreal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada
(e-mail: Danielle.Morin@Concordia.ca).
Cite: Danielle Morin, "Transition from Face-to-Face Teaching to Online Teaching in Times of Pandemic," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 246-251, 2022.
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