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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): Technology and educational ‘pivoting’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic

Technology and educational ‘pivoting’ in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Introduction to the special issue

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.fd92e590
Submitted
8 August 2026
Published
15-08-2026

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has, since early 2020, been associated with swift changes to how education is conducted across the globe. In attempting to maintain ‘social distancing’ and thereby prevent the further spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the provision of teaching, learning and assessment has been re-mediated in ways that have placed digital technologies—and especially online platforms—at the forefront of public conversations and policy discourses about education systems to an unprecedented degree. The word ‘pivot’ has often been deployed, especially by policymakers and institutional managers, to highlight both the rapidity of the changes and the sheer extent to which it seems that long-entrenched educational practices are being supplanted by newly crafted alternatives.

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