Looking Ahead: Investigation of an ad-hoc shift to online teaching with students as co-inquirers

In this pilot study staff researchers work with a Students-as-Partners team as co-researchers to explore the rapid shift to emergency remote teaching in 2020. The surveying and analysis was conducted with five undergraduate engineering students. The feedback from both the Students-as-Partners team and the surveyed student cohort underlines the significance of integrating students into education practices and training them to become the driver for change by focussing on students as active partners in their own learning. Future work will expand the survey methods where Students-as-Partners lead focus group discussions to obtain more detailed feedback to address and eventually overcome the challenges for online teaching and learning.