Surfing for Answers: Understanding How Universities in the United States Utilized Websites in Response to COVID-19

Autor/inn/en	McNaughtana, Jon; Garcia, Hugo A.; Schiffecker, Sarah M.; Jackson, Grant R.; Norris, Kent; Eicke, Dustin; Herridge, Andrew S.; Li, Xinyang
Titel	Surfing for Answers: Understanding How Universities in the United States Utilized Websites in Response to COVID-19
Quelle	In: Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 14 (2022) 3, S.111-129 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2151-0393
Schlagwörter	COVID-19; Pandemics; Universities; Web Sites; Information Dissemination; Online Courses; School Closing; Access to Education; World Problems; Crisis Management; College Administration; At Risk Students; College Faculty; College Students; Hygiene; School Personnel; Public Health; Clinical Diagnosis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? University; Universität; Web-Design; Informationsverbreitung; Online course; Online-Kurs; School closings; Schule; Schließung; Schließung (von Schulen); Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Weltproblem; Krisenmanagement; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Schulpersonal; Gesundheitswesen
Abstract	The onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic presented a unique global crisis that institutions of higher education were forced to engage with simultaneously. In this study, we provide insight into the use of websites by institutions in the United States (U.S.) during the pandemic. The sample for this study included public flagship universities within the U.S. and their institutional webpages focused on COVID-19 between January 2020 and April 2020. Guided by chaos theory (CT), we utilized a quantitative thematic analysis that involved the coding of institutional websites and public communications to develop a unique dataset capturing the information that institutions provided on campus websites (e.g., institutional decisions, timing of those decisions, public communications, and informational website structure). Findings indicated that all institutions in our sample engaged in moving to online instruction, implementing work-from-home policies, and canceling face-to-face events. In addition, we found variance in the accessibility and utility of websites. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01