Volume 18 · Number 2 · Pages 210–212
Teaching During the Pandemic: Addressing the Challenges of Online Learning

Victor V. Cifarelli

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “Living in Mapworld: Academia, Symbolic Abstraction, and the Shift to Online Everything” by Simon Penny. Abstract: I comment on Simon Penny’s main points about human cognition and his concerns about online education. I then provide an example and novice 4E assessment of my experience teaching mathematics remotely during the pandemic in the hope that it will encourage us to self-reflect on our own experiences, and determine whether frameworks such as 4E can shed light on our own observations and explanatory models during this most extraordinary period.

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Cifarelli V. V. (2023) Teaching during the pandemic: Addressing the challenges of online learning. Constructivist Foundations 18(2): 210–212. https://constructivist.info/18/2/210

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