In academic institutions, we are tasked to support students in achieving holistic knowledge so that they take responsibility at the personal level and in their group engagements. During the era of Covid 19, teaching and learning are totally moved online. How are we dealing with the affective domain? how about the cognitive and psychomotor? Do we need an additional holistic exam once the student return to campus?
It depend. We have achieved some prospects from online learning during the pandemic period of Sri Lanka.
Education is not just collecting information. This is available online/off line. Education is much more than that. It is human connection and understanding life in the company of fellow human beings. Hence, the extraordinary proliferation of online education, though served well in the time of pandemic, must revert back to off-line sooner or later. Yes, the future of education may have a cock tail of both.
The future of education must concentrate on cognitive abilities supported with understanding other human beings rather than one's own excellence. The rat race in this technological world has left the people more and more self - centred instead of becoming community - centred. Leaders have become nationalists. Earth should not be handed over to iron hearted tech savvies.
Hence the additional holistic education must concentrate on Art and beauty of life and not on Artificial intelligence or bio wars. Education must concentrate on developing love and affection, appreciation of other human beings, development of happiness within and outside.
Звичайно, що навчання за допомогою інтнрнет ресурсів сприяє цілісному розвитку студента. Отримання додаткових джерел, спілкування в мережах з однодумцями сприяє розширенню зацікавленості і активності до формування кругозору .
Lal Mervin Dharmasiri If you can be specific. what were the achievements and in what criteria measurement?
Оксана Поясик If you can translate in English please? Google translate didn't help much
Scientific forums such as conferences, discussions, and dissimination of knowledge through online learning have been significantly increased. It is cost-effective. No need to visit countries to participate and share the knowledge with others. I hope that it will help to develop knowledge among the respective parties.
Ftwi Yohaness Hagos - totally agree with you perspective with online learning needing to still be human centred through community building - I have been trying to develop a way forward for Learn Biomimicry( www.learnbiomimicry.com) to develop this at its core - thanks for sharing
From the cognitive side, more positive impacts are being reported by many researchers.
"...e-learners retained 25-60% of what they learned instead of 8-10% by students in conventional set-ups"
https://www.lcca.org.uk/blog/student-life/the-benefits-of-online-learning-during-the-pandemic/
The question is how about the other domains? As Nassia Choleva mentioned, don't we have some aspects in our curriculum which can't be replaced by a distance/online approach? How do we deal with these?
In societies with "respectful humanity," there will be fruits and successes!! Otherwise, it is a scam !!!
Pela humanidade, ela está criando um hiato muito grande entre as classes sociais e quanto ao uso na pandemia, espero que seja de forma correta e não mais um ato político
I think that digital learning during COVID 19 , can be seen as damage control in
Higher Education Institutions. Skills that require cognitive and psychomotor competencies cannot be assessed due to limitations that are in place to prevent the spread of COVID 19.Student competencies cannot be assessed as a result of this. Curriculum changes to be considered which may require higher order thinking and decision making strategies that is time consuming. There is an element of 'wishful thinking' meaning , that our lives will go back to what we regarded as 'normal' , prior to COVID 19.
In my view , there should be a complete paradigm shift from Traditional Teaching and learning Methods to ' digital vibes forever' as COVID 19 is here to stay.
Online learning is the way of the future.......yes there will be fallout especially in the affective domain but research needs to be propelled in this direction. Agree with Claudine Wittenschinskey Ftwi Yohaness Hagos
I think E-learning is a solution to education during the pandemic, even it has a limited achievement for teacher and students in the learning process, it couldn't control psychomotor by directly, but teacher could give the student some tasks it will do I their home, and increase cognitive achievement for students, the teacher use suitable model, method and techniques of teaching by some medias such as audiovisual media eg, zoom, Google meets and other online media.
E-learning is part of the technical evolution that we are going through, pre-covid era it was rather a slow process, people were still getting used to learning via new tools for example, many teachers still prefered black boards over power point presentations and so did the students. The pandemic made these tools life saving kits as there was no other to impart knowledge.
online learning is not 100% effective, there maybe many reasons to it, it maybe because a sense of distraction is already there in students' minds about the ongoing disaster, there's no face to face communication between student-teacher, students can be distracted by other apps on the phone or on the computer unlike in the classroom.
Although if a student wishes, he/she can gain immense of knowledge, major factor here is concentration.
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