The isolation generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has forced most of the world's universities to choose remote or virtual classes. In the case of engineering programs and other programs where real practical experiences are required, it has been necessary to resort to increasing simulation or to the development and implementation of remote laboratories. The scarce infrastructure that exists in remote laboratories will be able to demonstrate learning effectiveness and enhance future developments that validate the training of engineers using this educational tool that makes possible the technological advances of the 21st century and thus generate a permanent change in the global educational paradigm. .
Examples:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333432166_Architecture_for_the_management_of_a_remote_practical_learning_platform_for_engineering_education
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331042827_Influence_of_remote_education_on_consumer_value_of_university_education
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338740876_Remote_Laboratory
Hi Edwin!
If we are focussing on the place issues (Face-to-face/remote) and identify “remote” with “social isolation”, we will never get things to work fine. And as you say, in some kind of education labs and application situations are needed and simulations and remote instrumentation cannot fully meet this need.
However, we can turn the problem around; How do we design an education process in time, using a chosen set of all old and new ICTs we have, for making the best possible solution in a given situation with a teacher and his/her students in a course x with knowledge and skills learning objectives?
A course is almost always a mix of synchronous and asynchronous events during a period of time. For lecture delivery it is easy to just record or broadcast and connect a forum discussion - for skills development something else will be needed, ICT-enabled or not, school-or workplace-based?
if interested see my coauthored paper attached.
Article A time based blended learning model
Hi! It is possible to take advantage from the examples of world class universities those have experience in conducting lessons in distance learning using simulations. Thanks
P. Contreras , Thank you for enriching the discussion with your valuable input.
Dear Anders Norberg , thank you for your valuable contribution. Thank you for recontextualizing the question and bringing new ideas to the discussion.
I have a paper on e-learning design, basically what you need to have to deliver pure online learning. You can find it here: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJILT-09-2017-0092/full/html
There are many others out there that can help but this is addressed to teachers and academics in higher education.
Martin G. Debattista, thanks for the interesting article,
Shamima Raihan Manzoor Thanks for sharing your interesting contribution.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/fwa7sp/cagovworker/fmn58un?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
Yes, current situation with Corona gives additional and unusual advantage to distance learning that can be studied.
The education system has fully digitalised. From kindergartens to universities; every educational institution is holding online classes. Some are even pre-recorded. Homework is submitted at the click of a button. This new system has resulted in cost savings and one wonders why this was not more common before.
By using various online apps and tools such as Zoom Cloud Meeting, Skype, Google Meeting, FB Live, YouTube Live, etc. But the University must first make sure that all their instructors/lecturers know how to use these online tools.
Rajkumar Rajendram thanks for you interesting point of view about this situation
Rosmah Mohamed what you said in your contribution is a topic that universities do not take into account, thanks for your answer.
Rajkumar Rajendram, I think most of the global education system has now got access to online teaching but they are absolutely not all using it!
Some primary school kids and university undergrads have been utterly abandoned by their teachers and lecturers who either don't know how to use the technology, are being poorly supported by their employer or are too afraid/arrogant of saying (to their students!) "Help me, I don't know how to use this technology".
I think the transformation needs to be internal as well as external...
Dear Collegues. A great problem is being observed;
Firstly, a high percentage of families do not have an adequate Internet connection, they have not enough devices for a permanent connection for all family members. It is opting for a face-to-face education converted to virtual.
On the other hand, primary and secondary school teachers do not have experience in online training, beyond the courses they have received, nor has the Government considered it to be an educational model on which money or training should have been invested.
Similarly, parents have neither the capacity nor the knowledge to act as tutors for the education of their children, and many of the primary and secondary children do not yet have the autonomy that the online training student requires.
Public administrations will have to take much more into account this training model, very established and refined in Higher Education.
Jojo McDonnell thanks for your interesting point of view,
Juan Luis Cabanillas García thanks for your valuable appreciation
Dear Edwin Francisco Forero-García
Very very Useful discussion.
Best regards
Nasser Said Gomaa Abdelrasheed thanks for the recognition
Dear Mr. Forero-García!
May I claim that these days are an opportunity to improve existing platforms that are already in place:
- Elsevier (2020). " Whether it’s preparing for a paper, a grant or funding proposal, a request for new research allocations, a detailed patent application, or simply an interest in acquiring new engineering knowledge, Engineering Villages provides the most comprehensive information you need." Copyright © 2020 Elsevier, Available at: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village &
https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/support/promote/training-videos
>> BrightTALK (2020). "Engineering Village: A focus on Compendex & Inspec" Webinar: " This webinar will feature the powerful benefits of having both Compendex and Inspec on the Engineering Village platform. Our presenter Bonnie Osif, will highlight some of the insightful ways researchers are selecting to search Compendex and Inspec databases together to help solve contemporary grand challenges and uncover new discoveries in engineering. Also joining is Tim Aiken, Inspec product manager, The IET, and Steve Petric, Engineering Village product director, Elsevier." 26 May 2020: "Register for Free", Available at: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/13337/206087/engineering-village-a-focus-on-compendex-inspec
>> Elsevier (2020). "Novel Coronavirus Resource Directory: Engineering resources for the COVID-19 response" Elsevier's Engineering Solutions team, May 1, 2020, Available at:
https://www.elsevier.com/connect/engineering-resources-for-the-covid-19-response
Yours sincerely, Bulcsu Szekely
Dear Bulcsu Szekely thanks for share your very interesting links
Saeed Assani thanks for your interesting point of view
Experimental remote work seems to be far from reality. Most phd students who need to conduct experiments have simple been offered grant extensions so once everything is over they can catch up. That means that good ideas are needed to transform the way experimental researchers work.
I am also not certain that online classes are as effective as face to face ones. I think that some research would be beneficial to determine its effectiveness.
Well, in order to initiate we need a technology integration to boost online education from the countryside.
In my country, in Poland, everything is slowly starting to return to normal, education also.
To Waldemar Łasica : Can you share some more details regarding that process?
Online distance learning has been booming and on the rise. COVID-19 has put it at the front lines. It is a new learnig experience for many educators and learners worldwide. The good thing that learning is continuous. I believe even after the pandemic ends, hybrid/blended learning will carry on.
The race is on for educators to prevent corporations from seizing this moment with their planned curricula.
It is the perfect oppurtunity to familiarize oneself with the apps and technology to have classes, case presentations, journal clubs, and even examinations by tele systems. The tertiary care hospital where I work has made guidelines for the same and they are in use
Of course clinical examination and practical examination can never be replaced
Well, I consider that is an occasion to explore or examine new strategies to teach and learn. For instance, take some online courses or use more cutting-edge technology for remote education. In special about the transition I think is could be feasible and we could take some advantages because in current days there are lot of information in internet (some are free and others need to pay) and we could use info for increase our knowledge.
In the other hand, my worry and doubt is about how to teach some contents or develop skills using remote education, for example in courses that needs a laboratory or specific space to learn more, in that case, how we can take advantage with remote education?
In general, in many cases about how we could learn more through remote education depends on creativity and constantly learning that means read papers, books or listen interesting podcast and others.
Bryan P. Sanders thanks for your interesting appreciation
Galimberty R. Ponce Flores thanks a lot for your great contribution
Dear Edwin,
Thank you for sharing these interesting developments! In business, teacher and art faculties in Rotterdam we are testing the application of AI-coaches that can aid students in regulating both the right study and health behavior.
You might find this article of interest in which we describe why we think that AI-enhanced learning might boost both academic performance and wellbeing. Specifically now that we come to rely more on distance learning.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01063/full
Kind regards
Izaak Dekker thanks for your answer and your very interesting article you share
Hi! There are opportunities to utilise the time of social isolation though learning the various online tools to transform the regular face to face class materials more suitably designed for virtual learning platform. There is now room for experimenting various forms of virtual deliveries, conducting assessments and implementing the techniques to establish rapport with individual students in the online platforms to find out which techniques or tools work best at what context. Thanks
It's only in crisis but should be practice in normal situation too to get the outcome.
Edwin, what the COVID-19 crisis has laid bare, is the unpredictability and the changing nature of circumstances that has emerged to define part of our everyday reality. However, the unpreparedness that this situation has exposed, has also necessitated innovative new ways of conducting business, of delivering teaching and learning via new technological forms, the facilitation of communication networks through Zoom, Teams and other platforms and above all the resilience that individuals, nation states and collectives continue to demonstrate in the midst of great adversity and challenge. Face-to-face teaching has been transformed massively into various online delivery mechanisms by a range of educational institutions through smart technologies and given the current lack of closure for this health and economic crisis, it may be a while as we continue to witness new ways of adapting, coping and living with the pandemic. Interesting times...
John Mendy thanks for your interesting point of view.
In developing countries like mine, e learning platforms and courses, specifically for medical professionals need to be developed on a large scale. It is a challenging task and still a long way to go.
Pranav Ish Thanks for your contribution, very interesting answer
Hermann Gruenwald thanks for your answer, I agree with you.
Coronavirus-related disruption can give educators time to rethink the sector. Technology has stepped into the breach, and will continue to play a key role in educating future generations. In a world where knowledge is a mouse-click away, the role of the educator must change too, especially in adapting to the gaps creates by Covid-19 pandemic
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/4-ways-covid-19-education-future-generations/
For a while now, educators around the world have been talking about the need to rethink how we educate future generations. This might just be the disruption that the sector needed to get us all to rethink how we educate, and question what we need to teach and what we are preparing our students for. So, as we educators grapple with the new ways of communicating with our students away from our classrooms and lecture theatres, it is a good time to reflect on how this disruptive crisis can help us define what learning should look like for Generations Z, Alpha and beyond. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/4-ways-covid-19-education-future-generations/
Blended learning is the future. Blended learning approaches have been been tried, tested, and increasingly used. We know that the more engaging learning styles are ones that are more interactive, and that face-to-face learning is better than 100 percent online learning. We also know blended learning can draw on the best of both worlds and create a better learning experience than one hundred percent face-to-face learning. If, after having done 100 percent online at the end of this, I think it’s quite possible that we can then think about rebalancing the mix between face-to-face and online. Teachers will have started to innovate and experiment with these online tools and may want to continue online pedagogies as a result of all this. That’s really exciting.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2020/04/10/top-10-risks-and-opportunities-for-education-in-the-face-of-covid-19/amp/
Chinaza Godswill Awuchi very interesting answers,,, thanks a lot
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