In this case study I interviewed five history teachers experiences of digital education during the covid-19 outbreak the spring of 2020. What are the views of these teachers on the nature of their subject and its potential, how was this transferred into the digital space under hastily manners? And what was the following effects?
Interestingly depending on how the teachers view the potential of their subject their methods of teaching it changes. Which included different hindrances while transferring education into the digital classroom. The teachers used different strategies to mitigate the hindrances, but some patterns could be observed to be in common. This study concludes that the most important factors that affected the teachers where availability of digital tools and lack of visual feedback from the students. The teachers took different strategies to mitigate these too. The effects of the hasty lockdown and digitization of the classroom was during its time most notable lack of energy and a decrease of the teacher’s self-image as educators.
The effects of the lack of student response seems universal and a key reason of the negative effects, implicating that the meeting between teachers and students play a big role in not only the students learning, but also for the teachers feeling of work-related value.
Regardless of the negative effects, in the case of these teachers the most notable aftereffect of the experiences is that most of the teachers are even more motivated and feel a confirmation of their jobs and subjects’ significance.