Technology-Based Teaching Pedagogies: Online Learning in the Pandemic Time

The Chapter Five presents the current real challenges in high dropout rates at the first-year university level, focus on knowledge construction rather than enhancing skills, poor students’ motivation and engagement, weak connection to real-world examples, overlapping course contents, and excessive student debt. The Author provided a comprehensive remedy to the existing challenges by incorporating technology into teaching practices, and proposed pedagogical BL model that entails employing a blend of in-person and live activities, usually in the form of video-based classes and online quizzes in the same course. The BL and flipped classrooms must be used as tools to face the current challenges and make the shift from an educator-centered approach to a learner-centered approach. Students can use simulations, games, and role-play (SGRP) to immerse themselves in a fictional world by simply imitating the real environment in which they act given a particular scenario.