Online and Hybrid University Teaching: The Experience of the Theories and Curriculum Policy discipline in the Pedagogy course during the COVID-19 pandemic
teacher training, online and hybrid university teaching, cyberculture, online education, pandemic, research-training in cyberculture.
This work aimed to understand the potentialities of online and hybrid education in university teaching in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We present discussions on the importance of teacher training for teaching in cyberculture, reflecting on themes such as digital and cybercultural inclusion, dialogue and interactivity, interactive didactic design, and post-critical curriculum acts. Our methodological choice was cyber-research-training due to its intertwining with multireferentiality, complexity, cyberculture, and studies in/on/with daily life. This methodology was adopted because of the understanding that the process of training the teacher-researcher occurs simultaneously with training their students, resulting in an exchange of knowledge that emerges in the relationship between the city and cyberspace. The research field was the daily life of the Theories and Curriculum Policy discipline of the Pedagogy Degree at UFRRJ, where experiences were lived in online and hybrid modalities. We adopted project pedagogy in planning the activities of the discipline, organizing classes to integrate synchronous (face-to-face and online) and asynchronous (SIGAA) activities, creating activities for the production of media curriculum artifacts with a post-critical curriculum approach aimed at the development of teacher training moments. As research findings, we identified four notions: project pedagogy in online university education, interactive and collaborative online teaching in pedagogical mediation, experiential learning in the articulation of practice-theory-practice, and the potential of digital networking in the articulation between spaces, times, and pedagogies.