Contents: Foreword xiii Diana Laurillard 1 Introduction: education’s liminal space 1 Matt Smith and John Traxler 2 Pandemics, policies and positionality: how COVID 19 makes the case for postdigital policy making in higher education 11 Sarah Hayes 3 FELTAG in rearview: FE from the past to the future through plague times 24 Howard Scott, Alison Iredale and Bob Harrison 4 Students’ agency in the emergency remote teaching landscape 37 Caroline Kuhn 5 Blended learning: impacts on the student experience 46 Elliott A. Lancaster 6 Covid-19 and UK higher education: library perspectives 57 Lis Parcell 7 Further non-teaching perspectives on aspects of the higher education sector impacted by COVID-19 69 Maren Deepwell, Rachel Crookes and Matt Smith 8 Collaborative survival: the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange’s response to the pandemic 77 Sarah Sherman, Shoshi Ish-Horowicz, Nancy Weitz and Julian Bream 9 To record or not to record? That was the question 86 Rachel Maxwell and Rob Howe 10 Initial teacher education during COVID-19: adopting, adapting and inventing 104 Matt Smith, Rachel Morgan-Guthrie and Christy Caddick 11 The use of technology in health professionals’ learning in a time of COVID-19 119 Trudie Roberts, Suzanne Bickerdike, Nancy Davies, Gareth Frith, Jananisree Ganapathy, Richard Gatrell, Charlotte Pettersen and Joshua Rowe 12 “Having your cake and eating it”: Arden University’s responses to the COVID-19 lockdowns 131 Helen Scott and Carmen Miles 13 Digital learning after the crises: the new normal? 144 John Traxler and Matt Smith Index

‘This inspiring and reflective book documents how we have taught, lived and learnt in the pandemic, affirming the value of academic community at challenging times. I love that it explores the here and now and shares tentative perspectives on the future, as befits the fragile dawn of a new era.’