Pedagogical innovation between concepts and reality: Case of The FSJES of Fez

Abstract

March 16, 2019. On this precise date, the Moroccan government declared the suspension until further notice of courses in all schools and universities in the kingdom. And this in order to thwart the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) described as a pandemic by the world health organization. In order to face this decision, each university has made its own arrangements and as part of our work we were more specifically interested in the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of Fez, which made available to its students a “Moodle” platform so that they can follow the courses remotely. The results presented in this article come from an exploratory qualitative study which had for but to understand how the transition from face-to-face teaching to distance teaching was experienced by teachers, what resources were available to them and what were the obstacles they had to face. We used semi-structured interviews with 6 teachers aged between 43 and 55 years with a minimum of 15 years of teaching experience. The results show that the teachers of the Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of Fez have done their best to adapt to the new situation, they shown a lot of motivation by designing and broadcasting video clips, they also made an effort to buy some new technological equipment by their own to be able to do their lessons from home, they also faced a numerous of obstacles that they had to get around such as the lack of infrastructure which was constantly recurring during the interviews.

Keywords: Distance, learning, health crisis, Covid 19

JEL Classification: A2, I23, O33

Paper Type: Empirical Research.