Abstract:

The post-Covid-19 era provides universities with opportunities to reimagine and theorise about students learning beyond the hasty implementation of remote learning during the pandemic. There is a tendency of these institutions to retrogress to in-person physical contact sessions post-pandemic and this is counterproductive. Firstly, in a preliminary qualitative study of thirteen lecturers from Engineering (N=1), Communications Studies (N=1), Visual Arts (N=2), academic developers (N=5), African Language Department (N=1) and Marketing Department(N=3), it was found that physical contact has been very poor with most students preferring online learning that is mostly asynchronous. Asynchronous learning is based on students schedule and can be accessed anytime, anywhere and at students own pace. Secondly, students are increasingly make use of advanced AI systems such as variants of chat-GPT in their learning and assignments. A preliminary research on students perceptions of learning post-pandemic shows these tendencies. In light of these findings, I developed a new learning and teaching practice called telagogy, a web-based learning experience that involves online streaming of educational courses similar to Netflix. In this approach students curate their own personal curriculum that they curate similar to a Netflix playlist and can listen to at own time. Telagogy is an asynchronous and technology-as-essence learning experience meaning in addition to being accessible to students own time, it also makes use of latest AI systems to support students learning. It is also anticipated that telagogy would intensify beyond 2030 and once such a practice is entrenched, governments would consider funding students rather than universities. Universities would also consider developing a universal accreditation system as students would choose educational courses sourced from any university in the world to curate their curriculum. This poster presentation will share the framework and model of telagogy, findings from qualitative research from lecturers and students perspectives. Telagogy has already been published in two international journals.

Keywords:

Teaching, learning, remote learning, online learning, telagogy.