The Educational Turn: Rethinking the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Abstract
The Pandemic time forced the education system to handle disruption in teaching and learning in an unprecedented way. There are many positive things which can be attributed to this situation. Upon restoration of normalcy there was a fear of institutions and faculty reverting to the old practices they considered as effective and normal. Though, this situation gave the system an opportunity to bounce back with better strategies and approaches banking upon the best practices followed during the Pandemic. Many institutions exercised this choice quite judiciously and changed the way the teaching and learning activities used to happen not only in classroom situation but also in open and distance learning mode. There may be inclination toward going back to the old practices since these have been doing well in the past. However, the 21st century expectations coupled with Industry 4.0 Revolution force the education system to think innovatively and creatively.