Critical Teaching-Learning Situations in Higher Education and Vocational Education – A Qualitative Analysis of the Use of Digital Approaches and Tools in Virtual Collaborative Learning Environment

ABSTRACT

Due to internal and external events, such as the current Covid 19 pandemic, there are multiple changes in almost all life situations, thus also in pedagogical contexts of the education sector. In this context, concepts of learning guidance and learning support are of outstanding importance for development in higher education and vocational training. In particular, the immediate challenge is to transfer the tasks of learning guidance and learning support to virtual teaching and learning spaces in higher education and vocational training [1, 2]. For this purpose, the open-source online learning platform ILIAS™ and the web meeting software Adobe Connect™ were investigated in order to analyze critical teaching-learning situations in online learning and to derive recommendations for action. The results shown suggest that the development towards virtual teaching scenarios, which has become a necessity under the enforced conditions caused by the COVID-19 blocks, will also have an enormous impact on teaching and learning processes in the future in terms of didactics tailored to different learning groups and needs in and outside the classroom. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.