<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The suspension of face-to-face teaching activities, due to the pandemic emergency, led universities to rearrange their teaching strategies using online learning environments and video-conference tools as a temporarily replacement of classrooms, without an accurate attention to training strategies. In this scenario, there is a need to reconsider current practices in order to determine the appropriate development strategies of academic policies to address the future of innovation of higher education. The purpose is to develop a training system that could adequately integrate users’ needs, capitalise good practices and provide a boost in innovation caused by the distance learning experience. A right step in this direction is to develop a higher education context marked by high level of learning environments’ hybridisation that could flexibly answer users’ needs and meet increasing demand for professionalism in the work marketplace. In this paper, a documentary research of university Emergency Distance Learning practices is presented. The aim is to draw the profile of current situation in order to reflect on future development trajectories of higher education.</p></abstract>

The suspension of face-to-face teaching activities, due to the pandemic emergency, led universities to rearrange their teaching strategies using online learning environments and video-conference tools as a temporarily replacement of classrooms, without an accurate attention to training strategies. In this scenario, there is a need to reconsider current practices in order to determine the appropriate development strategies of academic policies to address the future of innovation of higher education. The purpose is to develop a training system that could adequately integrate users’ needs, capitalise good practices and provide a boost in innovation caused by the distance learning experience. A right step in this direction is to develop a higher education context marked by high level of learning environments’ hybridisation that could flexibly answer users’ needs and meet increasing demand for professionalism in the work marketplace. In this paper, a documentary research of university Emergency Distance Learning practices is presented. The aim is to draw the profile of current situation in order to reflect on future development trajectories of higher education.

Emergency Distance Learning in the Italian University

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The suspension of face-to-face teaching activities, due to the pandemic emergency, led universities to rearrange their teaching strategies using online...

Emergency Distance Learning in the Italian University

Published Online: Dec 22, 2021

Page range: 37 - 44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2021-0009

Keywords
Open and Distance Learning, Higher Education, Learning Environment, Education Policy, Quality of Education

© 2021 Valeria Tamborra, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Emergency Distance Learning in the Italian University

Published Online: Dec 22, 2021

Page range: 37 - 44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2021-0009

KeywordsOpen and Distance Learning, Higher Education, Learning Environment, Education Policy, Quality of Education

© 2021 Valeria Tamborra, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Open and Distance Learning, Higher Education, Learning Environment, Education Policy, Quality of Education