The use of online tools: examining the changing attitudes of academic staff towards their use in the classroom as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

This article discusses the implications that the move to online teaching has had on lecturers’ teaching practices by using interview responses from lecturers in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. In particular, it examines how lecturers have adapted to using online tools during the move to online teaching and how their attitudes towards these tools have changed. It concludes that there is a split between those lecturers who intend to continue using online tools in future teaching and those who remain hesitant to use them despite a year of their use during online teaching.