What is it about?
This paper investigates how students in two architecture schools in East Africa engaged with educational activities during the early phase of the COVID-19 lockdown. The COVID-19 lockdown and shift to emergency remote teaching and learning raised a number of questions for architectural education. These relate to access, equity and pedagogical approaches, which emerged through this study. The paper presents the findings of the study carried out in the University of Rwanda, and Uganda Martyrs University, along with the implications of the findings for architectural education. Making use of an online questionnaire distributed via QualtricsXM, the study attracted 70 student participants. The paper concludes with some suggestions for architectural educators as they rethink the embedded pedagogical traditions of architectural education, and how these must adapt for the future in order to cope with future shocks and disruptions.
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Why is it important?
The COVID-19 lockdown and shift to emergency remote teaching and learning have raised a number of areas of concern for architectural education. This need to be addressed as part of a sustained discussion of what future engagements with online architectural education could be.
Perspectives
The global lockdown precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic raised a number of questions for universities across the globe. For universities in the global South, this was particularly trying, having to adapt pedagogical approaches to the new technologies, while at the same time having to come to grips with technologies that were new to both faculty and students. On top of this was disparate access to and use of learning technologies with many having unreliable, or even no access to internet facilities or computer equipment that could allow access to online learning sessions. For architectural education, this was even more of a challenge given the perceived permanence of traditional studio pedagogy. What does this mean for the future of architectural education?
Dr Mark Olweny
University of Lincoln
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This page is a summary of: Online architectural education: Reflections on COVID-19 emergency remote learning in East Africa, E-Learning and Digital Media, August 2022, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/20427530221117329.
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