FROM DISTANCE EDUCATION TO EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING: TERMINOLOGY CHALLENGES POST COVID-19

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https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi21.4469

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Distance Education, Emergency Remote Teaching, Term, Concept, Digital Teaching

Abstract

This paper aims to present a brief critical review of the concept of Distance Education (DE) as it was defined until the outbreak of the COVID-19 and to confront it with the concept of Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) coined by Hodges et al. (2020). Clearly, issues of conceptual delimitation within the domain of learning paradigms and models are not a recent problem. However, the societal need to name concepts and the rapid and improvised redesign of teaching and learning models has led to the rapid spread of terminology that is not always accurate. Thus, the aim of our reflection is to contribute to a diachronic view, demonstrating that the concepts of DE and ERT have common characteristics but are not equivalent.

Author Biography

Joana Fernandes, ISCAP-P.PORTO/ CEOS.PP

Joana Castro Fernandes é Professora Adjunta do departamento de Línguas do ISCAP. Coordena o subgrupo de Português. É doutorada em Linguística pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Leciona nas áreas de Linguística, Semiótica e Comunicação. Os seus interesses de investigação dividem-se pela Linguística Geral, a Terminologia, os Estudos de Comunicação e o Ensino da Língua Portuguesa (como língua de Comunicação Especializada e como Língua Estrangeira). Participa com regularidade em eventos académicos nacionais e internacionais e tem publicações académicas e colaborações como revisora de pares em revistas no âmbito da Linguística e da Comunicação.

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2021-12-31

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Fernandes, J. (2021). FROM DISTANCE EDUCATION TO EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING: TERMINOLOGY CHALLENGES POST COVID-19: . POLISSEMA – ISCAP Journal of Letters, 1(21), 220–234. https://doi.org/10.34630/polissema.vi21.4469

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