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Editorial: Reflections on learning online

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  Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26907/esd.16.4.01
  Volume Number: 16 | Issue Number: 4 | Pages: 6 - 7
  Published: December 2021
  Article Author(s) - listed alphabetically: Nick Rushby
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A long time ago and in a galaxy far away, my first degree was in electrical engineering.
This was over fifty years ago, at a time when many people believe that technology-based
learning had not been invented. This of course, is not true and is a consequence of amnesia
in the education technology community (Rushby, 1983; Romiszowski & Rushby, 2015).
However, it was not until the 1970s that viable systems to manage the learning process
became available. By the late 1970s, Plato (developed by the University of Illinois) was
supporting several thousand graphics terminals distributed worldwide, running on nearly
a dozen different networked mainframe computers (Smith & Sherwood, 1976). So, my
undergraduate course was wholly class-room (and laboratory) based. To be honest, the
quality of the teaching was not good: I recall one lecturer who spent each lecture copying
the course textbook onto the chalkboard with chalk in one hand and an eraser in the other
to make space for the next paragraph , while another talked in an impenetrable accent
that none of us could decipher. Of the 100 students who started the course, only 60 made
it to the second year and fewer than 30 sat the final examinations . On average , each
year two students on this undergraduate course attempted suicide.
This was one of the factors that started my interest in ways of improving the quality
of university teaching.

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assessment bibliometric analysis blended learning communication competence Covid-19 creativity critical thinking distance learning education educational environment educational process educational standard evaluation foreign language future teachers higher education identity inclusive education lifelong learning model motivation multicultural education non-formal education pedagogy personality professional competence professional development professional orientation psychological safety quality quality of education reading comprehension reflection self-assessment self-development students teacher teacher education teacher professional development teachers teacher training training upbringing values

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Albina R. Drozdikova-Zaripova Alena Hašková Andreja Istenic Starcic Andreja Istenič Anna I. Akhmetzyanova Anna Kobtseva Aydar Kalimullin Aydar M. Kalimullin Aydar Minimansurovich Kalimullin Balwant Singh Branka Radulović Daria Medvedeva Dinara Bisimbaeva Elena Ibragimova Evgeniya Shishova Evsyukova E.A. Fatemeh Khonamri Ian Menter Idiyatov I.E. Ilshat R. Gafurov Kadriya Shakirova Liliana Shakirova Lira V. Artishcheva Lyubov A. Kochemasova Martina Pavlikova Mourat Tchoshanov Musa Nushi Natalya N. Kalatskaya Nick Rushby Oksana Kozhevnikova Olga K. Evdokimova Rezeda M. Khusainova Roza A. Valeeva Roza Valeeva Rushby N.J Tatiana Baklashova Valerian Faritovich Gabdulchakov Venera Zakirova Vera K. Vlasova Vera Khotinets Vera Vlasova Violeta Rosanda Vsevolod V. Andreev Yulia Novgorodova Zdenka Gadušová

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