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Perspectives on Instructional Delivery Changes Post-Pandemic for Adult Learners in Community Colleges
Keywords
Change, adult learners, instructional adaptation
Session Abstract
The purpose for conducting the study was to explore the extent to which modifications to academic course delivery in community colleges targeted at adult learners was altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic and whether these were anticipated to be permanent institutional changes.
Session Description
This session is a presentation of a research paper and comprehensive study of how community college leaders perceive they have adapted instruction targeted at adult learners due to the global COVID pandemic. The notion of the organizational change and permanence of the change is often described as sustainable change, and it is clear from the literature that the pandemic has created a massive amount of research on its impact.
Barton (2020), for example, studied the impacts of COVID-19 on field instruction and remote teaching alternatives and described the unique challenges of remote teaching on learning outcomes normally achieved face-to-face. Barton found that faculty generally thought that the change in instructional approaches resulted in lower learning outcomes and held negative views of the changes. The study did find though that some faculty regarded some of the changes as more effective than previous instructional methods.
The study reported here will focus on which instructional strategies were used prior to the COVID pandemic, and the extent that they will be used post-pandemic. Additionally, drawing on responses from senior community college academic leaders, study results will report unique aspects of how institutions have responded, both in instruction and administrative delivery, to adult learners.