Teaching from Home: Computer and Communication Network Perspectives

ABSTRACT

CoViD-19 has fundamentally changed how teaching and learning are done from K-12 schools to colleges and universities around the world, where many instructors have to deliver their lectures, tutorials, and even labs from their home, through the Internet. Due to the sudden and massive move to online teaching, a lot of challenges are encountered by education institutions, educators and support staff, and students and their parents. In this book chapter, we examine the challenges of “teaching from home” with the viewpoint of information technology (IT) education in general and computer network support in particular and offer some suggestions through our experience in 2020 and 2021 with input from IT support professionals, to create the much needed discussion among educators on this timely topic, which can be useful for 2021 and beyond. Online teaching may become a considerable mode of course delivery in the post-pandemic era, even without another similar event. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.