Leinonen Risto, Kesonen Mikko H P, Asikainen Mervi A
Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
Faculty of Education and Culture, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
SN Soc Sci. 2023;3(4):68. doi: 10.1007/s43545-023-00647-1. Epub 2023 Mar 23.
The COVID-19 pandemic arguably caused the most rapid and extensive educational reform ever witnessed. This article addresses the challenges, possibilities, and consequences that the pandemic has set for Finnish physics university teachers. The data were gathered with a literature-based online survey consisting of Likert scale claims and open-ended questions related to the following themes: the use of technology, interaction, learning and evaluation, experimental working, and the future. In 2021, the survey was distributed to all Finnish universities where physics is taught, and 52 responses were received. The results show the biggest challenges were related to the different aspects of interaction, experimental working, and adjusting evaluation. The opportunities were less recognized but the versatility and flexibility of instruction and the use of technology in the evaluation became apparent in the teachers' responses. The consequences of pandemic time for physics teaching and learning were seen rather negatively, even if a majority of teachers intended to change their old teaching practices in the future. The results indicate that university teachers need more discipline-based pedagogical support for enhancing learning, interaction, and well-being as the physics instruction likely gets more versatile after the pandemic.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43545-023-00647-1.
新冠疫情可以说是引发了有史以来最迅速、最广泛的教育改革。本文探讨了疫情给芬兰物理学科大学教师带来的挑战、机遇和影响。数据通过一项基于文献的在线调查收集，调查包含李克特量表式声明以及与以下主题相关的开放式问题：技术的使用、互动、学习与评估、实验操作以及未来。2021年，该调查被分发给所有开设物理课程的芬兰大学，共收到52份回复。结果显示，最大的挑战与互动、实验操作以及评估调整的不同方面相关。机遇较少被认识到，但教师的回复中体现出教学的多功能性和灵活性以及技术在评估中的应用。即使大多数教师打算在未来改变他们原有的教学方法，疫情期间对物理教学和学习的影响仍被视为相当负面。结果表明，由于疫情后物理教学可能会更加多样化，大学教师需要更多基于学科的教学支持来促进学习、互动和幸福感。
在线版本包含可在10.1007/s43545-023-00647-1获取的补充材料。
