HET researcher Tahani Aldahdouh received a grant to research online teaching in Palestine and Finland

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tahani Aldahdouh received a grant from the Post doc pool to research online teaching in the context of Palestinian and Finnish higher education.

Finnish universities have invested a lot of effort and resources to offer their teaching staff technical and pedagogical solutions for smooth transition to online education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nonetheless, university teachers encounter numerous challenges with online teaching during the pandemic, such as for example, fostering student engagement, and working at home with children. Tahani Aldahdouh has been researching how university teachers in Finland develop their online teaching expertise during this challenging period, and started to wonder, how do teachers living in distressed areas such as Palestine cope with these digitalisation changes. The Post doc pool (Säätiöiden post doc -pooli) awarded Tahani Aldahdouh 58 000 euros grant to conduct a comparative study of online teaching in these two highly variant contexts, Finland and Palestine.

Read more about the grant on the webpage of the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

 

Text: Vesna Holubek

Photo: Tahani Aldahdouh