Editorial PLAT 21(2) 2022

Abstract

After online teaching prevailed during the last semesters, most students and instructors are keen on meeting face-to-face again. However, it will not be easy to get everybody back into class. Some students liked the new freedom that came along with online teaching. Others are happy to go back to some of their classes but would like to learn at home for others. Cannot the course material be provided via the internet and be available at all times? Cannot instructors provide videos or at least audio tracks along with their slides? Why is it necessary to come to this particular class? Such discussions will take place among students and instructors.Will instructors have good arguments for face-to-face teaching? Or will they as well prefer to stay online? It was one thing to get teaching online and it is another to get students back in class. I believe that psychology is in a very good position in this respect, because our students are interested in human interaction and the teaching of psychology is usually of high quality. The more we offer excellent learning opportunities face-to-face, the fewer discussions about sense and nonsense of class attendance we will have. Some new ideas of how to improve psychology teaching and learning might be found in this new issue of PLAT.