Non-native Professors' Adaption to Online Teaching during COVID-19: A Case Study

Abstract

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries ordered or suggested schools to close their buildings. International education exchange and cooperation have been disrupted. Academic exchanges program between professors, instructors, and students from different countries has been suspended. International education exchange and cooperation strategies need adaptation. This paper discusses how to effectively implement online teaching to adapt to the international education exchange under the epidemic, taking a non-native professor who participated in the international education cooperation program and taught online courses for Chinese students as a case. The study combined choosing an online course platform, identifying the teaching content with accommodating the teaching and learning strategy, and discussing learning outcomes of this case for international education cooperation. The results show that: adjusting the teaching content, teaching strategies, and choosing the appropriate online course platform, could promote students’ learning achievement of international online courses. This paper proposes that under the epidemic, higher education exchanges between countries could continue strong international cooperation through adjusting exchange strategy actively, and applying educational information technology effectively.