The influence of the digital divide on emergency remote student-centred learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of journalism education

The data consists of vlogs created by second and third-year students from a university of technology over a month from June 1 to June 30, 2020. Vlogs are usually short videos produced by people as a means of articulating their reflections on an issue. They are a reflective tool that prompts oral self-evaluation (Brott 2021). They are also an archiving mechanism that allows one to observe how their reflections have changed over time. Every week for the first four weeks of online learning in 2020, the second and third-year students had to create vlogs where they reflected on teaching and learning during the pandemic and lockdown as a means of capturing their reflection-in-action (Little 2010). The vlogs were around a minute long to capture only those uppermost issues in the minds of students. The theme of the reflections was “Covid-19 and its impact on journalism and journalism education”.