I Will Teach You in a Room - I Will Teach you Now on Zoom: Evidence-based research on creative arts digital pedagogy in Australia

This presentation will report initial outcomes from an evidence-based research project into the pedagogical implications of the shift to online learning that arose in higher education in the creative arts within Australian during the COVID-19 experiences of 2020/21. This in-progress research is expanding on preliminary findings as published by the research team on the impact of Zoom technology on creative practice pedagogy throughout 2020, and seeks to better understand the limitations and unexpected positives of digital pedagogies that emerged from the global pandemic. The research aims to understand the benefits and impact of digital pedagogies on tertiary creative practice education, while also unpacking possible transdisciplinary benefits of a creative arts approach to digital teaching and learning. Contextualised through a global literature review in relation to digital pedagogy and evidence-based case-studies, this presentation will outline the approach to digital learning being rolled out within multiple creative arts disciplines in the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Through targeted research undertaken in Semester 1, 2021 across a range of undergraduate learning and teaching contexts, the research team is studying student responses to virtual lectures, lecture ‘watch parties’, approaches to blended learning collaboration strategies, and the pedagogical balancing act of managing live and remote student cohorts. A detailed look into the study and its context will be presented, along with the Initial data analysis.