Maaike completed her PhD in 2025 on identifying, measuring, and fostering teachers’ synchronous online teaching competences. Currently, she works at the Department of Educational Studies (Ghent University), partly as a postdoctoral researcher within the Erasmus+ Teacher Academies project E-FORCE , which supports ECEC, primary, and secondary educators in mastering both asynchronous and synchronous online teaching. She is also a teaching assistant in the Master of Primary Education program, where she contributes to courses on STEM education and professional learning.
For a complete list of publications, please have a look at my biblio page.
Abstract.
As a growing number of educational institutions are offering online programs, teachers need to be competent in this new way of teaching. This is especially the case for synchronous online learning through videoconferencing technology, an emergent and so far understudied form of online education. Based on a systematic literature review of 30 studies, this study identifies 24 competence clusters, which can be grouped into 5 teacher roles associated with synchronous online teaching through videoconferencing: the instructional, managerial, technical, communicational, and social role. This framework can act as a starting point for future research on this understudied topic and can also provide directions to support teachers' professionalization and practice.
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