@inproceedings{09c023e9ccc948eaaa58bb675182be6d,
title = "Teachers' readiness for remote teaching during COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Latvia",
abstract = "The state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic influenced educational processes in schools all over the world. Teachers had a very short time to reform all their work and started to use new technologies, which increased their workload and level of stress. Information on factors affecting teachers' readiness for remote teaching is insufficient, and we aimed to investigate it in this study. We performed a population-based cross-sectional study after the first experience of teachers working remotely during the Spring 2020 state of emergency in Latvia. We assessed the self-reported 'overall readiness for remote teaching' using five sub-domains of a specific survey. We observed a reversed association between the teachers' 'overall readiness for remote teaching' and teaching the subject of sports ($\beta=$ -7.25, CI -10.97; -3.54) and a significant association with the self-assessment of teachers' own digital skills ($\beta=$ 6.54, CI 5.25; 7.83). We conclude that special training programs for teachers on the efficacy of remote teaching should be created to help them get over the difficulties of new educational processes and improve their digital skills. We recommend additional support for sports and health teachers as their readiness for remote teaching was significantly lower.",
keywords = "COVID-19, Distance education, Remote teaching, Teachers' readiness for remote teaching",
author = "Evija Mirkee and Lilian Tzivian",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 IEEE.; 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021 ; Conference date: 21-04-2021 Through 23-04-2021",
year = "2021",
month = apr,
day = "21",
doi = "10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454088",
language = "English",
series = "IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
pages = "537--542",
editor = "Thomas Klinger and Christian Kollmitzer and Andreas Pester",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021",
address = "United States",
}
