The Spring 2022 Special Edition of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence takes an emerging view of lessons learned and techniques successfully applied while universities responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. Six articles address the following topics: administrative response to crisis; documentation of teaching for tenure and promotion portfolios during untraditional times; remote team teaching; teacher and student perceptions during a sudden shift to remote learning; video feedback techniques to support remote students; better understanding student and teacher mental health needs resulting from the COVID-19 response.

The Spring 2022 special issue of the Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence covers a spectrum of teaching innovations and research findings emerging from the COVID-19 era of remote teaching. Topics include adaptation to change, documentation of teaching excellence, team teaching, using video in feedforward practices, and research into perceptions of online teaching and the anxieties held by teachers and learners resulting from COVID-19 responses.