Reflections on Online Teaching under the Covid-19 Pandemic—Taking the International Chinese Language Program at Macao Polytechnic Institute as an Example

Abstract

As the world has been going through the unprecedented challenges caused by Covid-19 pandemic, so has the online teaching, which has been replacing traditional bricks-and-mortar teaching during the period of "suspending classes without suspending learning" globally. Having tried such large-scale online teaching for four months for the first time in over three decades of teaching, the author has also gone through the unprecedented challenges, caused by her lack of experience and skills in online teaching, as well as problems of lack of students' self-discipline and lower effectiveness of online teaching and learning, etc., which have encouraged the author to think deeply. Since the Covid-19 still rages through the whole world, and the severe pandemic makes the global online teaching likely to continue in the near future when the new academic year begins, this paper is a reflection of the author on her online teaching experience and understanding, from which she tries to figure out how to make her coming online teaching better, how to combine the traditional face-to-face class along with online teaching in the future.

Keywords

Covid-19 pandemic / interaction / Macao Polytechnic Institute / motivation / online teaching / suspending classes / teaching methodology

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