How to address the socio-affective dimension in emergency remote teaching?

Abstract

To continue teaching during the confinement phase of the pandemic, higher education teachers have had to keep up teaching at a distance, in a model that has been identified as remote emergency education. We have faced the challenge of revising our teaching and learning strategies, as well as the socio-emotional aspects that impact students success in this transition.
Members of the Network for Educational Innovation (Red de Innovación Educativa 360, o RIE360) have prepared a series of recommendations to address the social dimension in teaching and learning during the pandemic. We describe the stages that students go through as they move on to this new educational model; then we present ideas to engage and motivate students in their learning process, as well as to establish an effective relationship with them.

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