The COVID 19 emergency has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives right now and this has had an enormous impact on all sectors of education. Nationally, and internationally, educators and students are responding with incredible ingenuity, flexibility and most of all, care for each other. The physical closure of our Higher Education Institutions has forced us to shift almost all learning and teaching activity online in a way that, until very recently, would have been unimaginable. This poses numerous challenges but also presents opportunities. If nothing, the fact that the country was able to shift to online delivery with little advance warning is a testament to both the technology now at our disposal and the flexibility and dedication of educators and students. Likely this sequence of events will have lasting effects on teaching and learning going forward.
In response to this unprecedented situation, The All Ireland Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (AISHE-J) invites colleagues to share experiences and responses and to reflect on the immediate and longer-term impacts of these changes.