A review of educators’ experiences in conducting emergency remote teaching during pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

The pandemic of COVID-19 has dreadfully forced a global shut down of educational activities and caused a crisis-response where schools and institutions prompted online learning to serve as the alternative educational platform. The migration from face-to-face teaching into an online system had led to a tremendous problem since most educators had little or no training at all. Thus, this study aimed to produce a review of educators’ experiences in conducting emergency remote teaching during pandemic. This paper presented a review of empirical studies published between January to December 2020. A systematic search was conducted in Scopus. The inclusion criteria were primary studies of teachers’ experiences in conducting emergency remote teaching (ERT). The included studies were reviewed based on their methodology, setting and population, scopes of study and thematic coding of teachers’ experiences. The findings of this study indicated that there was room for improvement in teachers’ profession and online instructional models to prepare for the unknown incoming crisis.