Digital Technologies, Online Learning and Lesson and Learning Studies

The first WALS webinar of 2021 will focus on ‘Digital Technologies, Online Learning and Lesson and Learning Studies’ and will feature authors from three of the eight papers included in the IJLLS special issue which has the same focus.

The Q and A sessions was chaired and questions was moderated by the co-editors of the special issue, Nina Helgevold from the University of Stavanger, Rongjin Huang from Middle Tennessee State University and Jean Lang from the University of Exeter. We have included an introduction video below which you can watch.

The papers have been chosen to represent worldwide interest in this topic from academics and teachers and will include the following:

Teachers’ learning in extraordinary times: shifting to a digitally facilitated approach to lesson study The research reported in this paper brings forth the experiences of three teachers working in different schools. These teachers learned about lesson study through a course offered at the University of Malta while, at the same time, leading a lesson study with colleagues at their school. With the COVID-19 outbreak, these teachers had, out of necessity, to adopt and accommodate for their lesson study to an exclusive online approach. This paper, hence, focuses on teachers’ learning as they shifted their lesson study online. James Calleja, Patrick Camilleri View Recording

Digital tools to promote remote lesson study The authors propose that a digital instructional delivery format of lesson study (LS) may have the potential to amplify particular aspects of traditional, face-to-face LS. Joanna C. Weaver, Gabriel Matney, Allison M. Goedde, Jeremy R. Nadler, Nancy Patterson View Recording

Teachers’ learning through an online lesson study: an analysis from the expansive learning perspective This study aimed to explore how a group of Chinese primary mathematics teachers learned through conducting an online cross-cultural lesson study between China and Australia. Xingfeng Huang, Mun Yee Lai, Rongjin Huang View Recording