Satu-Maarit, F. & Keskitalo, P.  (2020). Enhancing social learning with digital applications: Life stance education and Sami pedagogy move to synchronous distance learning in teacher education. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshore, R. Kaplan-Rakowski, & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, technology and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field (pp. 23–26). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/216903/

Abstract:

“This article explores how courses in life stance education and Sámi pedagogy in the primary school teacher education program at the University of Lapland were transferred online mid-session due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how the lecturers (N = 2) and preservice teachers (N = 64) experienced distance learning. The lectures were organized so that the learning expectations were fulfilled, hence, the chosen applications supported interactive and dialogical working methods leading to social learning. The students’ feedback was generally positive, and they were pleased that an interactive and dialogical atmosphere could be created with synchronous distance learning. Students also expressed that online learning put them under time pressure, made delimiting tasks more difficult, and induced in them a need for one-on-one supervision. Lecturers need to take these implications into account when planning and conducting online teaching. The process created a two-way-learning place for lecturers and preservice teachers alike.”