Online and blended teaching at the UvA: Teachers’ experiences and pedagogical strategies

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, universities across the globe had to suddenly switch to online education. While this has presented many hurdles, it has also provided opportunities to explore the potential of new forms of (online) education.
Funded by the University’s Executive Board, the current study set out to learn from the various online and blended education practices developed at the UvA in March–December 2020. Specifically, this study aims to gain insight into how UvA teachers from various disciplines: 1) experienced online teaching and institutional support during the COVID-19 pandemic; 2) (re)designed their courses for online delivery; 3) facilitated social and cognitive processes in the courses they taught online, and 4) view the role of online (aspects of) education in the future.