Learning At A Distance

Distance learning presents teachers, children and parents with great challenges - and causes concern. It's about more than missing tablets, stable internet connections and teaching-didactic problems. In the pandemic, educational and social relationships come under pressure. Distance learning changes schools, changes teaching and learning. How - this is investigated by the VERSA project (changes through schools at a distance). The educational scientists Prof. Dr. Barbara Asbrand, Prof. Dr. Merle Hummrich and Prof. Dr. Mirja Silkenbeumer are researching how the corona pandemic affects the educational relationships and peer relationships of young people in the school context, which is changing, but also staying the same. They investigate this with case studies: which crisis constellations arise from reduced social contacts? How do the young people experience the restrictions at their school or when learning at a distance? How do the actors involved deal with it? Distance teaching requires a rethink: both teachers and students need support, advice, orientation and standards. "Our goal is to find out how growing up changes in distance or alternating lessons and how it is handled individually"