This handbook showcases extraordinary educational responses in exceptional times. The scholarly text discusses valuable innovations for teaching and learning in times of COVID-19 and beyond. It examines effective teaching models and methods, technology innovations and enhancements, strategies for engagement of learners, unique approaches to teacher education and leadership, and important mental health and counseling models and supports. The unique solutions here implement and adapt effective digital technologies to support learners and teachers in critical times – for example, to name but a few: Florida State University’s Innovation Hub and interdisciplinary project-based approach; remote synchronous delivery (RSD) and blended learning approaches used in Yorkville University’s Bachelor of Interior Design, General Studies, and Business programs; University of California’s strategies for making resources affordable to students; resilient online assessment measures recommended from Qatar University; strategies in teacher education from the University of Toronto/OISE to develop equity in the classroom; simulation use in health care education; gamification strategies; innovations in online second language learning and software for new Canadian immigrants and refugees; effective RSD and online delivery of directing and acting courses by the Toronto Film School, Canada; academic literacy teaching in Colombia; inventive international programs between Japan and Taiwan, Japan and the USA, and Italy and the USA; and, imaginative teaching and assessment methods developed for online Kindergarten – Post-Secondary learners and teachers. Authors share unique global perspectives from a network of educators and researchers from more than thirty locations, schools, and post-secondary institutions worldwide. Educators, administrators, policymakers, and instructional designers will draw insights and guidelines from this text to sustain education during and beyond theCOVID-19 era.

Table of Contents:
.Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: World Education Dilemmas, Teaching Solutions and Innovations and in the Age of CrisisIsmail Fayed and Jill Cummings, Eds  I. Teaching and Learning in Crisis Situations (19 Chapters)  Proven Practices in Community College Applied and Distributed Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Appreciative Inquiry          Diane S. Burt  Leveraging Campus Innovation Centers in a Crisis  Ken Baldauf  A Framework for Transitioning to Online Education in the Context of COVID-19  Margaret Rauliuk, Mae Doran, Chadia Mansour, Rima Al Tawil  Connecting Technology and Pedagogy (CTAP) for student engagement and learning in higher education  Mary A. Drinkwater  An Imaginative Education Course Design Framework for Student-Centric Instruction and Assessment in Higher Education  Nina Pak Lui, Jenn Skelding  Education under attack: an examination of education in emergencies and strategies for strengthening education  Patty Zakaria  Developing an Innovative Model that Addresses Mental Health and Learning in Higher Education Institutions During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond  Valerie Damasco, Grace Karram Stephenson, Gerald Cupchik  Supporting Pedagogy for Empathy Skills in Supervision of Students via Tele-Visual Applications  Jocelyn Sherman, Neil Duchac  Teaching and learning under COVID-19: Students’, parents’ and teachers’ perceptions and experiences from Egypt  Mohamed Mahgoub, & Eleanore Hargreaves The School Counselor's Role in a Post Covid-19 Era  Angela McCoy-Speight  Ensuring and measuring optimal psychological conditions for student learning in post-COVID-19 education  Robert Laurie; William Morrison; Patricia Peterson  Students’ Emotional Considerations and Mental Health  Negar Sohaee, Ali Ghasempour   Writing and Reading Fiction Behind the Lines: Creative Learning on the Home Front  Alexandra Pett  Teaching Citizenship English to Adult Limited English-Proficient Immigrants at Local Libraries: Challenges and Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic  Ally Zhou LearnIT2teach: Online Learning for Newcomers in Times of Crises  Matthias Sturm  Teaching and Learning Online at the Time of COVID-19  Naghmeh Babaee, Shahab Ghandhari  The Digital Divide: An Ongoing State of Emergency in Adult Literacy Programs  Matthias Sturm, Christine Pinsent-Johnson Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants: Bridging the divide in the Post-Pandemic era  Jasreen Grewal Kang, Amanpreet Kang, Garima Kamboj  The impact of COVID-19 on the right to education  Papaioannou Agoro  Social Justice in Teaching and Learning: Remote Northern Teacher Challenges and Agency through the Lens of COVID-19  Joanie Crandall   Responding to Adult Learner Student Needs in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Modifying Online Graduate Courses Christine Harrington, Adele Macula, John Melendez   II. Alternative Teaching Pedagogy Paradigms (18 Chapters)  Understanding AFL Students’ perceptions of the Use of an Interactive Digital Platform to Enhance Reading Strategies: An activity theory Perspective Hany Fazza   Care, Connectivity, & Chaos: Moving Beyond Resilience in Post-COVID Undergraduate Education Laura Facciolo, Emily Meilleur-Rivers   Theatre and Film during Times of Troubles, Crisis and Pandemics John, Tench   Quarantine Cinema: a pedagogical approach to film directing during COVID-19 Alexander Carson   Engaging Learners and Creating Effective Learning Experiences in the Timeof COVID-19 Maha Alsoraihi   Digital spaces of engagement: Perspectives on using Zoom in online classrooms David Ishii     Faceless' online interactions: A search for meaning, context, and community Garima Kamboj, Jasreen Grewal, Aman Kang   Student Engagement and Assessment in Online Teaching Ali Sher, and Arif Toor   Best Practices for Superior Faculty Presence Iram Tanvir   Engagement in Learning Kelly Elizabeth Fanson   Remote Synchronous Delivery (RSD): Lessons Learned from teaching during Covid-19 Angela Kominek , Maha Salman   Teaching without PANTS! (Pandemic Accelerated, Novel Technology Symptoms) How Affordable Learning Solutions Enabled Rapid Response Instruction Alexander Reid, Elaine Correa, Mrs. Sandra Bozarth, Jin Hee Hur, Tzu-Fen Chang   New Educational Realm: Alternative Teaching Paradigms and Pedagogy Elena Korbout   Navigating the shift from language instructor to instructional designer: How foreign language pedagogy can adapt in the age of E-Learning Gianluca Pedrotti, Laura Capitani, Zachary Sporn   Turning over a new leaf: Flexible approach in rigid times, comparative analysis Adnan ul Haque   Teaching Quantitative and non-Quantitative Courses Online and Remotely in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic Mandev Singh, Daman Singh   Reflective Inquiry on Early Years Pedagogy through Distance Learning and Teaching in the Post-COVID19 Era Michelle McKay, Klara Redford   COVID-19, an Opportunity to Deindustrialize Writing Education Amir Kalan   Liberating Feminist Methodologies in Post-COVID-19 Creative Disciplines Amy Bagshaw   Remote Synchronous Delivery for Interior Design Education: The Shift towards Innovative Paradigms in Design Teaching Approaches Maha Salman , Dina Elkady , Penny Fobler-Cressy  , Reem Habib , Gamal Mohammed   Teaching in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future (working title) Mazzucato Ludovica, Daeizadeh Zohreh, Kaur Navdeep, Kazemi Aida, Naghmeh Babaee, Sode Seyy   Can you see me? - An Australian university moves to emergency synchronous delivery Ratna Selvaratnam       III. Alternative Professional Development Dynamics (11 Chapters)  The Importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on The Pandemic Teaching-Learning Process – COVID-19 Renata Guidi, Michelle Silveira, Diogo Fernandes, Rafael Braz   Information and Communication Technology for African Higher Education Institutions: Challenges and opportunities Abdullahi Hussein   Education Leadership at a Time of a Pandemic: Handling Future Crises More Effectively Salma Waly   Developing English language teachers and language teaching in a time of pandemic Gary Motteram   Modelling Best Practices for Remote Synchronous Delivery in Teacher Education: A Process- Content Approach Jill Cummings   Online Teachers from Offline worlds: Lessons Learned Angela Bailey   Developing Future Teachers’ Digital Media Literacies through Online Social Reading Practices Osman Solmaz   The focus will on learning to prepare teachers online while maintaining a high level of engagement among teacher candidates and a focus on equity and social justice. Antoinette Gagne, Shakina Rajendram, Dania Wattar.   The Stressed and Fatigued “Zooming” Educator: Sources, Symptoms, and Solutions Amanpreet Kang, Garima Kamboj, Jasreen Grewal   Poetry and Prose: Mediating andModelling Faculty Member Mental Health and Wellness Christine Arnold, Cecile Badenhorst, Jan Buley, John Hoben, Leah Lewis, and Heather McLeod   Identifying the questions that matter: The evolving role of the teacher as a guide. Ludovica Mazzucato   Making the Strange Familiar and the Familiar Strange: The Coronavirus Crisis, Critical Reflection and Teacher Educators Reem Khalid Abu-Shawish   IV. Ethical Teaching, Internationalization, and Alternative Assessment (20 Chapters)  Towards Resilient Online Assessments: Lessons from COVID-19 Era Walid Ahmed Massoud, Mohamed Abdul Latif Hussein   Online Language Assessment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: University Faculty Perceptions and Practices Abdurrazzag Alghammas   Online Assessment and Feedback Practices: (Virtually) Narrowing the Distance Pavlos Gkasis   Values and ethics in the teaching profession Jack Olszewski   Cultivating an Ethic of Caring - Post COVID and Beyond Susan E. Elliott-Johns   A Global Framework of Values and Ethics in Distance Teaching during Crisis Mahrous Basuny, Zakaryya Abdel-Hady and Ismail Fayed   Reading (World Through) COVID-19: Notes on the Posthuman Higher Education Cagdas Dedeoglu   Teaching a Tolerance for Ambiguity as a Response to Crisis Learning Contexts for Canadian Post-Secondary Students Jennifer Long   Teaching in the Post COVID-19 Era: Power Shift and Imbalance in Online Teaching Platforms Zohreh Daeizadeh, Naghmeh Babaee   Technology in Higher Education  Received May 27 William McIver Jr.a, Angela McIver b, Calinda N. Lee c, Stephanie McIver d, Ben McIver     .