Abstract
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks have caused universities all across the globe to close their campuses and forced them to initiate online teaching. This article reviews the pedagogical foundations for developing effective distance education practices, starting from the assumption that promoting autonomous thinking is an essential element to guarantee full citizenship in a democracy and for moral decision-making in situations of rapid change, which has become a pressing need in the context of a pandemic. In addition, the main obstacles related to this new context are identified, and solutions are proposed according to the existing bibliography in learning sciences.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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COVID-19 / epidemiology*
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COVID-19 / virology
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Computational Biology*
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Decision Making
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Education, Distance / organization & administration*
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Humans
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Pandemics
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Quarantine*
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SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
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Teaching*
Grants and funding
This research received funding from the collaborative Research Centre 992 Medical Epigenetics (DFG grant SFB 992/2 2016), the German Research Foundation Germany’s Excellence Strategy (CIBSS - EXC-2189 - Project ID 390939984), and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF grant 031L0101C de.NBI-Partner-de.NBI-epi). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.