Student belongingness in higher education: Lessons for Professors from the COVID-19 pandemic

‘To learn about X, observe what happens to the system when X is removed.’ What higher education student experience when, during a pandemic, so many of avenues for building sense belonging are radically and fundamentally disrupted? How should we respond as individuals, collective sector, redress this? The national survey data in Australia has highlighted significant drop learner engagement their result pandemic. Indeed, pandemic been point anxiety students, educators, universities globally. We see unique opportunity critically examine belongingness among university students climate where normal feel they belong need establish new kind normal. In this article, seek articulate can be learned from instructors do improve it, even under difficult circumstances. found opportunities strengthen students’ online environments, necessary, how responses within constraints lockdown emergency remote teaching still support success.