Shifting to digital: informing the rapid development, deployment, and future of teaching and learning: Introduction.

Educational institutions and learning organizations with their teachers, professors, instructors, and students are quickly moving from physical classrooms to online settings due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The process Over numerous meetings, the guest editors identified 17 papers published at ETR&D in the past five years, and selected these 17 papers to be responded in this special issue. Dr. Istenic Starcic kindly offered to be the lead guest editor to help streamline the papers for the special issue in the editorial manager system. The special issue called for essay-style response papers (500-1000 words) to the 17 selected publications via AECT newsletter, listserv, websites, and social media. [Extracted from the article]