Back to campus : teachers returning with digital experience

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This paper examines the effect of teachers who returned to face-to-face classes after experiencing fully online lessons for a full year in 2020. The research was conducted in the English department of a college in Tokyo which had not kept up with digitalization and previously utilised no ICT equipment in the classroom prior to the pandemic. The increasing use of technology in Japanese higher education before and during the pandemic is well established, but this case study presents an interesting comparison as a sudden shift. The research results revealed that for more than half of the classes, teachers continue to view face-to-face classes on campus as easier to manage in terms of student interaction. Moreover, the majority of teachers returned to the classroom with classes as ICT device users and online resources while they did not consider or require students to be ICT users. The implications for digitalization in a college without a special ICT team is also discussed.

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