Title: ‘Individual Digital Readiness’ (IDR) as a Key Factor in Digital Higher Education
Stream: Resilience
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Jana Steinbacher, Heidelberg University of Education, Germany
Abstract:
Recent empirical studies conducted at Heidelberg University of Education show that emergency remote learning/teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been quite challenging for both students and lecturers. Although the sample has been found to be overall resilient, there are shared concerns, e.g., about social relationships between students and lecturers, competence acquisition, and students’ (behavioural) inhibition and increasing independence, self-reliance and responsibility in particular. Being aware that the pandemic currently is a major life stressor and immediate solutions are required, the attempt is to not only focus on short-term functioning but to promote internal well-being and competent functioning in the long-term, i.e., what is increasingly acknowledged to be ‘the new normal’. ‘Individual Digital Readiness’ (IDR) is considered to be a precondition and key factor for individual and social well-being in online learning environments.
The oral presentation will reflect on the latest findings at Heidelberg University of Education as well as touch upon methodological considerations in the concurrent research process.
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