Home Based Learning (HBL) in higher education post COVID: an analysis from staff and student perspectives

The purpose of this work is to analyse the impact of COVID-19 on teaching methods, focusing on the Home Based Learning approaches (HBL) utilised at short notice to support students at the Robert Gordon University in Scotland. Building on the themes developed by Tay et al. (2021), this paper focuses...

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Main Authors: Neil Connon, Elliot Pirie
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Language:English
Published: Humber Press 2022-03-01
Series:Journal of Innovation in Polytechnic Education
Online Access:https://jipe.ca/index.php/jipe/article/view/107
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