Rapid Design and Implementation of a Teacher Development MOOC About Emergency Remote Teaching During the Pandemic

Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 forced K-12\xa0schools worldwide to transfer their educational programs from in-person instruction to remote online teaching Teachers faced a range of difficulties towards providing remote teaching and integrating e-learning tools in their practices This paper reports on a study concerning the rapid design and implementation of a MOOC to support primary and secondary education teachers in Greece towards using online tools in their remote instruction during the pandemic of COVID-19 The design framework and the implementation procedure of this particular MOOC are presented The preliminary findings of a survey concerning 171 teachers who responded to an online questionnaire after completing this MOOC, are also presented The results revealed teachers’ satisfaction with regards to their personal outcomes and achievements, in terms of abilities to apply online instructional practices in their remote classrooms The majority of the participants considered that this MOOC was an efficient environment to enhance their pedagogical knowledge and e-learning design skills necessary to provide remote instruction during the pandemic © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG